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As a note, WASP refers to old money families with ties going back to the colonial era, not just middle-class/wealthy white dudes in America. Also, at least in S
by tnecniv 9y ago
As a note, WASP refers to old money families with ties going back to the colonial era, not just middle-class/wealthy white dudes in America. Also, at least in STEM departments, you will see plenty of non-white names.
> In Physics (my background), most papers have 2-3 citations, and only a small percentage have 1 or fewer
Does that account for self-citations?
- dragonwriter 9y ago> WASP refers to old money families with ties going back to the colonial era No, it refers to White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, an ethno-religious group that cuts across socio-economic class divides and includes plenty of people that are neither old money nor descended from families that have been in the US since the founding (and excludes some old-money, from-the-founding families.)
- PeterisP 9y agoIt does exclude many large subpopulations from the many immigration waves coming after the colonial era. All the irish, italian, polish, jewish people; the vast majority of 19th and early 20th century (very large!) immigrants and their descendants aren't WASPs.