主题：美国WASP统治的衰落？ -- 晨枫

1、最高法院法官第一次全部是非WASP，九名大法官中，六位是天主教徒，三名是犹太人（包括新人卡根）。

-- Jews are integrated into WASPs. The top crust of Jewish community is well-accepted now. I saw many cases of inter-marriage (WASP+Jew) around me. All are from decent families.

-- 6 do not have WASP faces, but the Supreme Court has deeply the WASP culture there. "Rule of law" (everyone must bow before the law) and "due procedure" are two typical Anglo concepts. They are totally different from their corrupted Irish cousins back in Ireland.

2. 最高法院中居然没有白种盎格鲁·萨克逊新教徒（White Anglo-Saxon Protestant，简称WASP）的任何代表：九名大法官中，六位是天主教徒，三名是犹太人（包括新人卡根）。

--I am curious: who are the CIA or intelligence community Godfathers? Does American president really have all the power?

--Is there any coverage on CFR? People always joke that CFR is the true Department of State...

4、《华尔街日报》月前引用调查，囊括WASP的美国基督教新教徒人口中，只有21%家庭年收入超过10万美元，同一比例在犹太族群中是46%，在代表性的亚裔中也超过了40%。在金权主义的美利坚，这一经济现实的含义不言而喻。

--WASP old families have hidden their WEALTH through foundations or trusts. Many of my students grow up with all expenses paid through "trusts". If you only look at the ANNUAL LABOR INCOME(or earned income) flow of their parents, then you will reach the conclusion above in Chinese, which is a bit misleading.

My question: have we counted the INVESTMENT INCOME(passive income) reported NOT under the individual account, but under various "trusts"/family foundations??

hehe. Devils are there. Poor Chinese just started to get exposure to those games...

BTW, annual income does NOT equal WEALTH. The former is a flow variable and the latter is a stock variable. High annual labor income makes you more vulnerable to Uncle Sam's tax axe (at least 35% or even higher).

Final comment: Li Han Qiu has seris of articles comparing Anglos and Frenchmen. Englishmen are good at empire building because they are inclusive and expansive in their public administration: they offer career opportunity to non-English, shape them in their own culture and beliefs and gradually include them into their ruling clubs.

First example is the Scotsmen. Englishmen absorbed Scotland and shared imperial power with Scots. Scots worked hard to invade foreign lands to fight for the British global order: Canada is a perfect example. Most British soldiers that fought in Canada are Scots--just check Nova Scotia/Halifax.

Second example is the Indians--I mean real Indians back in India. The Indian elites are die-hard loyalists to the British empire--with their excellent british english and English education.

Third example is the American Italians, American Germans, American Irishmen. Historically, there were discrimination against all of them, with Italians and Irishmen suffering most in 19th century and early 20th century.

But look at the WWII American top commanders in 1920s:

Eisenhower/Ike: Supreme Commander of the Allied force, a German American from Texas.

Nimitz: Admiral and chief commander of the Pacific fleet, a German American. The guy who plotted the Midway success.

In the Bush Jr. administration, several key positions are controlled by Jewish elites and German Americans.

As to Italian Americans, there are many many examples... Irish Americans: check today's American generals.

Remember what I said: an expansive and integrative order of empire with certain meritcracy (never 100%).

Those German/Dutch/Irish/Italian Americans are very very different from their European cousins: they are WASPized culturally and ideologically. They are physicall non-Anglo, but culturally Angloized.

In sum, WASP has one top administration skill in their hand: they are good at building empires that are 3E: enticing, embracing and expansive.

Enticing: they use "better life"/"more freedom" to entice you to join. Unlike Frenchmen, who always pick on your poor French accent and treated you like underdogs, Englishmen create the mirage that if you work hard and do things in their ways, you can join them and "be like them with better life" (not always true).

Embracing: they embrace you through the market competition or open market. They embrace you by giving you "fair shot", you embrace their WASP global order by joining their game and playing by their rules.

Expansive: the Anglo global empire expanded globally which allows every passenger on the boat to share the prosperity. In the end, an Asian/European grew culturally into the WASP mode (think/behave/talk) and in the process expanded the WASP Anglo global order (economic/political/educational...) further on a global scale. Look at those expatriate managers of US multinationals in Asia and Europe....

Look at those proud Americans on July 4, then you fully understand my term 3E...

WASPs can shrink in head count, but their cultural grasp of American mainstream never fade away. They revived themselves by adding and marrying Jewish financial elites, Irish political elites and German industrial elites.

When Chinese are rich and powerful enough, both in States and in Asia, you might one day see some Asian faces in CFR/Country Club dinners. But those are, for sure, America-educated Ivy graduates "bananas".

WASPs are exclusive, but they are equally realistic and respecting wealth and power.