Stereotypes of white Americans

Stereotypes of white people in the United States are generalizations about the character and behavior of European Americans.

In the United States, white people make up the majority of the nation's politicians, military leaders and corporate executives, while most minority groups have a smaller presence. Stereotypes of white people include the idea that they are "extremely self-involved, uneducated about people other than themselves, and are unable to understand the complicated ways in which people who are not white survive." Stemming from that is "white people problems," a concept similar to First World problems, where stereotypically self-involved white people obsess over trivialities.

Stereotypes of white people in general often reflect those of the "backward," "barely-educated" redneck sub-population. Stereotypes of rednecks include incest and inbreeding, abusing hard drugs like methamphetamine and watching NASCAR. Additionally, a common stereotype for white Americans is a love for the condiment mayonnaise.

Another stereotype is the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) stereotype of wealthy well-off whites. Even though there are only approximately 1.5 billion whites in the world, they hold a vast majority of spots on the billionaire list. Whites are, relative to other races in the United States and Europe, richer. However, only a small percentage of whites are truly wealthy in America, and many minorities and poorer whites believe a much larger percentage of white people, overall, are rich stereotypical WASPs. WASPs are stereotypically seen as condescending, arrogant, and unsavory rich people who show unaffected, silent disdain and disgust for lower classes and ethnic minorities as well as being exclusionary, close-minded and elitist. WASP stereotypes involve old money, Ivy League college educations, high income white collar office work in fields such as finance and law in ritzy downtown offices, large houses in exclusive neighborhoods or gated communities, country club memberships, and leisure activities like golf and yachting. The WASP stereotype also often collides with yuppie culture in a taste for the finer things in life and an unbridled love of shameless materialism in having the latest luxury cars, clothes, gadgets and living in pricey real estate from gentrified areas in world class American cities as well as spacious mansions in exclusive suburbs and exurbs.

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