re: yuppie
I say this tongue-in-cheek, but the general consensus is that if I care this much about being or not being a yuppie, than I probably am one. Along these lines, I would like to direct you to another, funnier, more popular blog. Although it would probably be more accurately called, "Stuff Upper-Middle Class, Well-Educated Americans Like," Stuff White People Like is cynical, hilarious and uncomfortably close to home. -a
posted by Rolling Stones at
6:32 PM
4 Comments:
that's a great blog! it came to my attention last week and I loved it :D
3/10/08, 8:41 PM
omg, it's popular! and american :)
I don't even understand the concept White People. It must be my total lack of - yuppie - or - american - humour ;)
And, btw, travelling to Italy over Easter is totally yuppie
3/11/08, 8:25 PM
I think I finally understand what "yuppie" is, and it's because I realized that I actually know one.
I met my friend on a foreign exchange program. He was raised in Miami, and his first car was a BMW. Every car since has been a BMW. He leases these cars so he will always be driving the newest one. He likes them just because they are "the best" and just because they will show that he has wealth.
"The best" is a phrase you will hear from him often. Even when we were poor college students, he insisted on going to "the best" restaurants ("Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman came here, so it must be the best") and the trendiest bars. While I showed up to our fancy dinner in a $10 dress I got from the Dillard's sale rack, he was wearing his $200 Versace jeans (and I must say I looked more dressed up than him).
After he graduated from college, he would only accept "the best" jobs that paid a lot of money. He advised my friend not to consider any job that started at less than $50K. He wants a lot of money because he believes money gives him power and respect. He spent a whole evening trying to tell me how possessing a specific credit card told the world that you had power. No, in fact, his words were: That card is power. I kid you not.
As you can see, this guy spends money just to show off that he has money. This is a "yuppie." I believe you are equating "yuppie" with "trendy." I also believe our previous conversation still applies to the trendy term (and yes, you are trendy), but I will confirm that you are definitely not a yuppie like my friend.
For one, if you were a true yuppie, you would have made sure you had a sweet job out of college that paid a lot of money to support your spending/consuming habits, which are used to earn respect and friends.
So bask in your trendiness, because I know you will never make it to yuppieville. As Hannah said, no one from Wyoming could ever become a yuppie.
By the way, I really enjoy my friend. Yuppies aren't bad people. He is just unlike anyone else I know. And I'm ok with that.
3/12/08, 4:26 AM
Thanks guys! I'm so glad you posted about stuff white people love. I'm white and now everything is beginning to make sense!
3/13/08, 4:26 PM
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