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From: thoma@reed.UUCP (Ann Muir Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: yuppies
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Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 19:55:39 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 30 19:55:39 1985
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Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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"Yuppies" to me (a member of the "puppie" generation) are...hmmm... alot
of things.  Definitely upwardly mobile, usually in banking, business,
law, medicine... Seemingly carefree, but actually insecure.  Sometimes gay
("guppies").  Well-educated.  White.  Male or Female.  Afraid of
committed relationships, especially when under 30.  Into health clubs,
gourmet food, foreign cars (BMWs, "sporty" Toyotas, Volvos...), condos,
plants, cats, VCRs, vacations in other countries, cocaine, wine coolers, ,
Kate Bush, tailored clothes in conservative colors (greys, navy blue,
heather, cream...)...Not exactly socially concious.  Sometimes born-again
Christians. Sometimes non-practicing Jews. often agnostic. Republican or
Democratic. stuck-up...

Needless to say, the above are all stereotypes.  I tend to get a little
resentful of yuppies because they have the external appearance of thinking
that they own the world.  (To a certain extent they do).  But the one
thing that defines a yuppie is that he or she will always deny being one.

Ann Muir Thomas
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