[Cinnamontea]

She was playing a WASP, not an Italian-American. Very reserved, repressed, “bland” culture

Yeah, WASP culture is like that on TV and in the movies. In reality WASPs--an ignorant term, really--have as much culture as anyone else, and it's no more "bland" or "repressed" than any other culture, just different.

[Dr. Sivana]

it's no more "bland" or "repressed" than any other culture

I went to a prep school filled with WASPs for seven years. If you narrow the definition of WASP to include primarily upper-middle-class to upper-class, there is something there. Even in the pursuits of higher study or hedonism, they tend to be on the bland side. (Compared to the Jews, academic blacks, ethnic Catholics, lower economic strata folks)

This is not a bad thing. They did the work (or attended the parties, or played lacrosse); the Persians at the Prep school were more trouble than they were worth.

[Albion Wilde]

Yeah, WASP culture is like that on TV and in the movies. In reality WASPs--an ignorant term, really--have as much culture as anyone else, and it's no more "bland" or "repressed" than any other culture, just different.

I contend that they have “more” culture than many, if not most other ethnicities. A long-held Puritan Christian culture of modesty and of keeping a low profile typified the Northeastern descendents of the New England settlers.

My use of WASP was not literal or figurative, but as the acronym it stands for: White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.