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'''WASP''' is a disparaging term for '''White Anglo-Saxon Protestants''' in the United States or Canada, usually in a reference to an apparent elite status. It is usually spelled in capital letters, suggesting the nasty [[wasp]] insect. The "Anglo-Saxon" part means of English descent, though in common usage people descended from elsewhere in western and northern Europe are included. By contrast [[Yankee]] refers to New Englanders of English descent, regardless of social status, while WASP includes high status white Southerners.<ref> More generally, Southerners in the U.S. call all Northerners "Yankees", and people outside the U.S. call all Americans "Yankees" or "Yanks."</ref>   

'''WASP''' is a disparaging term for '''White Anglo-Saxon Protestants''' in the United States or Canada, usually in a reference to an apparent elite status. It is usually spelled in capital letters, suggesting the nasty [[wasp]] insect. The "Anglo-Saxon" part means of English descent, though in common usage people descended from elsewhere in western and northern Europe are included.  

 

By contrast [[Yankee]] refers to New Englanders of English descent, regardless of social status, while WASP includes high status white Southerners.<ref> More generally, Southerners in the U.S. call all Northerners "Yankees", and people outside the U.S. call all Americans "Yankees" or "Yanks."</ref>   

The term WASP is usually used in a disparaging or humorous manner, and many dictionaries warn against casual usage.

The term WASP is usually used in a disparaging or humorous manner, and many dictionaries warn against casual usage.

===Irish usage===

===Irish usage===

"Anglo-Saxon" was a term favored by the French (to criticize close diplomatic relations between the US and Britain), and by the Irish Catholics, who considered themselves Celtic and resisted Anglo-Saxon (English) rule in Ireland.  American humorist [[Finley Peter Dunne]] popularized the ridicule of "Anglo Saxon" circa 1890-1910, even calling President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] one. Roosevelt insisted he was Dutch, and invited Dunne to the White House for conversation.  "To be genuinely Irish is to challenge WASP dominance," argues Irish politician Tom Hayden.<ref>  Tom Hayden, ''Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish America'' (2003) p. 6 </ref>  The depiction of the Irish in the films of [[John Ford]] was a counterpoint to WASp standards of rectitude. "The procession of rambunctious and feckless Celts through Ford's films, Irish and otherwise, was meant to cock a snoot at WASP or 'lace-curtain Irish' ideas of respectability."<ref> Luke Gibbons, Keith Hopper, and Gráinne Humphreys, ''The Quiet Man'' (2002) p 13 </ref>

"Anglo-Saxon" was a term favored by the French (to criticize close diplomatic relations between the US and Britain), and by the Irish Catholics, who considered themselves Celtic and resisted Anglo-Saxon (English) rule in Ireland.  Irish American humorist [[Finley Peter Dunne]] popularized the ridicule of "Anglo Saxon" circa 1890-1910, even calling President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] one. Roosevelt insisted he was Dutch, and invited Dunne to the White House for conversation.  "To be genuinely Irish is to challenge WASP dominance," argues Irish politician Tom Hayden.<ref>  Tom Hayden, ''Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish America'' (2003) p. 6 </ref>  The depiction of the Irish in the films of [[John Ford]] was a counterpoint to WASp standards of rectitude. "The procession of rambunctious and feckless Celts through Ford's films, Irish and otherwise, was meant to cock a snoot at WASP or 'lace-curtain Irish' ideas of respectability."<ref> Luke Gibbons, Keith Hopper, and Gráinne Humphreys, ''The Quiet Man'' (2002) p 13 </ref>

===Sociology===

===Sociology===