<p>I know the type of person it describes (kinda) but not really what it means.</p>
<p>White Anglo Saxon Protestant.</p>
<p>In plain English, its the old guard white people from England who founded the country. Pretty much all US Presidents have been WASPs, and it is the basis of many secret socities in US colleges.</p>
<p>Women Air Service Pilots (for another take on the issue) =)</p>
<p>its supposed to be a derogatory term for a white person</p>
<p>i as a white person dont really care if someone says something degrading to me like cracker or honkey, it just doesnt affect me. its weird how the whiiite peolpe dont get affected but everyone else does. i actually think cracker is a cool name lol</p>
<p>Cracker comes from the old slave days when the negro slaves would call their masters “crackers” do to the whip cracking they did to keep them on their toes.</p>
<p>I’m not sure it’s a purely derogatory term like “cracker”. I believe WASP was just an acronym of history/sociology lingo and/or a PC term for a certain class of white people (what joev said).</p>
<p>It essentially means a preppy, upper middle class-upper class white person. They don’t really have to be Anglo-Saxon, nor do they have to be Protestant for the term to stick. For example, John Kerry was inaccurately labelled as a WASP even though he is Catholic and his grandfather is Czech.</p>
<p>its also an acronym for the four best LAC’s:</p>
<p>Williams Amherst Swarthmore Pomona</p>
<p>I’m a WASP and proud of it!</p>
<p>WASP isn’t really derogatory.</p>
<p>A band…</p>
<p>A common insect, although normally not all the letters are capitalized. Maybe one letter. Two if you’re bold and daring.</p>