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 Mom allegedly passed 31 hospitals on road trip as daughter was dying. Man was planning cremation for his sister, who turned out to be alive. One of the Slender Man attackers escaped her group home, briefly. 'Putin wants legal recognition to what he has stolen.' Report an error