White Anglo-Saxon Protestant  

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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, commonly abbreviated to the acronym WASP, is a sociological and cultural ethnonym that originated in the United States.

The term originated in reference to White Americans of English, Irish, Welsh, and Scottish descent, who were Protestant in religious affiliation.


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