Lifestyle | White Anglo-Saxon Protestant How to Tell If You're a WASP By Nick McMaster Posted Sep 21, 2009 4:16 PM CDT Copied In this book cover image released by Little, Brown & Company, "Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of WASP Splendor" by Tad Friend, is shown. (AP Photo/Little, Brown & Company) Being a WASP is a lot more than being just white, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant. Author Tad Friend expounds at length on the criteria for true WASP-hood in his upcoming book Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of WASP Splendor. Vogue offers the highlights: Your refrigerator "contains only marmalade, wilted scallions, out-of-season grapes, seltzer, expired dairy products, and vodka." You have a long and unwieldy full name but go by a nickname like "Bootsy" or "Scrote". As a kid, "you wore Lacoste shirts in a vibrant effusion of pinks, yellows, and greens"; now you favor "dull, molting colors of khaki and battleship gray, and tweeds." Your chosen sport "typically requires a large or intricately carpentered space unusable for any other purpose, expensive equipment, and a willingness to endure cold and/or discomfort." "You own a sporting-breed dog, named after a strong liquor." Read These Next Actor Michael Madsen is dead at 67. Doctor left her Alaskan cruise and never returned. Police shot a bank robber as a drone delivered some Faygo Red Pop. Houses passes 'Big Beautiful Bill' by Trump's deadline. Report an error