Re: Anglo Saxon Protestant, I - in hindsight - agree with you. But, in my defense, I was in my early 20s and I had never heard about WASP before, so I was mostly like "wtf is going on here", because while a lot of US culture had made its way across, it was definitely not my culture (and still isn't, I just know more now). So I was trying to understand something everyone else had an intrinsic understanding of and who definitely was not looking at this as belonging together.
Re: How it comes up... Well, pretty much but people griping about something going on or there being a genuine discussion about privilege. As these things do come up elsewhere, this was not during yuletide season but another time during the year. In hindsight, my mistake was questioning it in the first place, but at the time, privilege - to me, I'm ESL and from a different cultural background - was not connotated with white privilege or whatever but more in the "having more money than" meaning of the word (and the concept was still relatively new on fandom spaces). So I was genuinely trying to understand. That was definitely a mistake.
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Re: Anglo Saxon Protestant, I - in hindsight - agree with you. But, in my defense, I was in my early 20s and I had never heard about WASP before, so I was mostly like "wtf is going on here", because while a lot of US culture had made its way across, it was definitely not my culture (and still isn't, I just know more now). So I was trying to understand something everyone else had an intrinsic understanding of and who definitely was not looking at this as belonging together.
Re: How it comes up... Well, pretty much but people griping about something going on or there being a genuine discussion about privilege. As these things do come up elsewhere, this was not during yuletide season but another time during the year. In hindsight, my mistake was questioning it in the first place, but at the time, privilege - to me, I'm ESL and from a different cultural background - was not connotated with white privilege or whatever but more in the "having more money than" meaning of the word (and the concept was still relatively new on fandom spaces). So I was genuinely trying to understand. That was definitely a mistake.