My Urban Geography textbook uses the term "WASP"

[WinkOsmosis]

"With the exception of the African American and Indian populations, the United States during its first 50 years of existence was mainly a homogeneous, white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant (WASP) society."

I think that's kind of funny. I thought it was just a slang term.

 

[rudeguy]

bit of trivia for ya: anyone know when/where the term "WOP" to describe Italians came from?


and no one jump in thinking racial thoughts...I just watch too much History Channel

 

[fyleow]

My Government teacher used the term on a test.

People kept asking him "What the heck is WASP?"

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: rudeguy
bit of trivia for ya: anyone know when/where the term "WOP" to describe Italians came from?


and no one jump in thinking racial thoughts...I just watch too much History Channel

Without Papers.

 

WASP is a pretty accepted term in history circles. It doesn't mean anything derogatory, it just is an acronym used to describe a large portion of the American population. Many of my teachers have used it.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

Originally posted by: rudeguy
bit of trivia for ya: anyone know when/where the term "WOP" to describe Italians came from?


and no one jump in thinking racial thoughts...I just watch too much History Channel

With Out Papers.. I worked with an eye-tie, his nick name was WOP in high case on his
coveralls

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: rudeguy
bit of trivia for ya: anyone know when/where the term "WOP" to describe Italians came from?


and no one jump in thinking racial thoughts...I just watch too much History Channel

Without Papers.

I thought that was interesting...a lot of racial terms came from Ellis Island

 

[Ikonomi]

Originally posted by: rudeguy
bit of trivia for ya: anyone know when/where the term "WOP" to describe Italians came from?


and no one jump in thinking racial thoughts...I just watch too much History Channel

From the word "guappo"? I dunno, ask Google. Conflicting reports.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

DP

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: Ikonomi

Originally posted by: rudeguy
bit of trivia for ya: anyone know when/where the term "WOP" to describe Italians came from?


and no one jump in thinking racial thoughts...I just watch too much History Channel

From the word "guappo"? I dunno, ask Google. Conflicting reports.

its without papers...if someone came to Ellis Island without papers they had WOP chalked onto them. A whole boatload of Italians came over one time, and none of them had papers, and the name stuck.

or something to that affect

 

[Ikonomi]

Well, I was just going by Google. I searched and pages like this came up. They all mention the "WithOut Papers" thing, but point to the foreign origin, though it seems like different people trace the word of origin differently.

 

[stormbv]