<p>Not all “rich white people” wear it on their bodies and dress in platted Polo shorts with pink button down shirts every time they leave their house, and not all strut around campus in a drunken haze hitting on every female they come within a ten mile radius of. This is the impression some people seem to have of ‘rich white people’, and it’s ridiculous, myopic, and pathetic on a certain level. People like that are a small, small minority of all white people. In fact, at any elite university, you probably know a few ‘rich white people’ without realizing that is what they are. PtonGrad2000’s experience seems to corroborate this. Generalized thinking about ‘rich white people’ is as biased and unfounded as the stereotypes about any one socioeconomic group of people. People tend to let it slide because ‘rich white people’ have never been oppressed in American society, but such stereotypes are as divisive and bigoted as those about any other socioeconomic class in America. </p>
<p>Sorry for the rant, but somebody had to say it.</p>