Lifestyle | White Anglo-Saxon Protestant How to Tell If You're a WASP By Nick McMaster Posted Sep 21, 2009 4:16 PM CDT Copied In this book cover image released by Little, Brown & Company, "Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of WASP Splendor" by Tad Friend, is shown. (AP Photo/Little, Brown & Company) Being a WASP is a lot more than being just white, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant. Author Tad Friend expounds at length on the criteria for true WASP-hood in his upcoming book Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of WASP Splendor. Vogue offers the highlights: Your refrigerator "contains only marmalade, wilted scallions, out-of-season grapes, seltzer, expired dairy products, and vodka." You have a long and unwieldy full name but go by a nickname like "Bootsy" or "Scrote". As a kid, "you wore Lacoste shirts in a vibrant effusion of pinks, yellows, and greens"; now you favor "dull, molting colors of khaki and battleship gray, and tweeds." Your chosen sport "typically requires a large or intricately carpentered space unusable for any other purpose, expensive equipment, and a willingness to endure cold and/or discomfort." "You own a sporting-breed dog, named after a strong liquor." Read These Next Arizona governor wants answers on Grand Canyon fire. Trump reportedly asked Zelensky if Ukraine could strike Moscow. Democrats happily pile on over the Epstein fallout. They played husband and wife on TV, are now married. Report an error