I am not (I repeat not) a Yuppie!
Someone called me a yuppie. I won't say who, but it's someone we all know...
I am not a yuppie!
To defend myself, I've consulted the oracle of Wikipedia and the following was revealed to me:
Yuppie, short for "Young Urban Professional," describes a demographic of people primarily comprising the children or grandchildren of the baby boomer generation. Most commonly, they are highly-educated and upwardly-mobile and are aged from early twenties to early-to-mid thirties, circa 2006. Yuppies tend to hold jobs in the professional sectors, with incomes that place them in the upper-middle economic class. The term "Yuppie" emerged in the early 1980s. Although the original yuppies were "young," the term now applies as well to people of middle age.
The term "yuppies" has come to refer to more than just a demographic profile - it is also a psychographic and geographic profile. It describes a set of behavioral and psychographic attributes that have come to constitute a commonly believed stereotype.
According to the stereotype, yuppies are more conservative than the hippies who preceded them. (In reality, many of the early yuppies were actually hippies in the 1960s.) Dispensing with the social causes of the hippies (who themselves shed traditional values), yuppies tend to be "work hard / play hard" types. A cinematic example is Charlie Sheen's character; Bud Fox, in the movie Wall Street.
Yuppies tend to value material goods (especially trendy new things) and are also supposed to have "bad taste" in that they buy expensive things merely for the sake of buying expensive things. An example would be the "yuppie" stereotype for those with a love for Starbucks coffee. In particular this can apply to their stocks, luxury automobiles (e.g. BMW, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz), sport utility vehicles, development houses, and technological gadgets, particularly cell phones.
Heavily influenced by a competitive corporate environment, "yuppies" often value those behaviors that they have found useful in gaining upward mobility and hence income and status. They often take their corporate values home to their spouses and children.
According to the stereotype, there is a certain air of informality about them, yet an entire code of unwritten etiquette can govern their activities from golf, tennis and Lacrosse to luncheons at trendy cocktail bars. Older Yuppies tend to side more with the Republicans and Conservatives, while younger Yuppies are generally more "involved" with social causes and tend to be more politically correct, more often siding with the Democrats and Liberals.
Yuppies are sometimes stereotyped as wearing white shirts, blue ties, and black pants.
Okay, okay, so some of this does apply to me there are a few areas that seperate me from a true yuppie:
a) I'm not highly-educated. Everyone these days has a college degree.
b) My income does not place me in the upper-middle economic class. I currently don't even own a car and cannot afford to buy a house.
c) I do not have "bad taste"
d) I may have a new cell phone, but I had the old one for many many years until it started to die.
e) I do not wear white shirts, blue ties, and black pants.
I am not a yuppie!
To defend myself, I've consulted the oracle of Wikipedia and the following was revealed to me:
Yuppie, short for "Young Urban Professional," describes a demographic of people primarily comprising the children or grandchildren of the baby boomer generation. Most commonly, they are highly-educated and upwardly-mobile and are aged from early twenties to early-to-mid thirties, circa 2006. Yuppies tend to hold jobs in the professional sectors, with incomes that place them in the upper-middle economic class. The term "Yuppie" emerged in the early 1980s. Although the original yuppies were "young," the term now applies as well to people of middle age.
The term "yuppies" has come to refer to more than just a demographic profile - it is also a psychographic and geographic profile. It describes a set of behavioral and psychographic attributes that have come to constitute a commonly believed stereotype.
According to the stereotype, yuppies are more conservative than the hippies who preceded them. (In reality, many of the early yuppies were actually hippies in the 1960s.) Dispensing with the social causes of the hippies (who themselves shed traditional values), yuppies tend to be "work hard / play hard" types. A cinematic example is Charlie Sheen's character; Bud Fox, in the movie Wall Street.
Yuppies tend to value material goods (especially trendy new things) and are also supposed to have "bad taste" in that they buy expensive things merely for the sake of buying expensive things. An example would be the "yuppie" stereotype for those with a love for Starbucks coffee. In particular this can apply to their stocks, luxury automobiles (e.g. BMW, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz), sport utility vehicles, development houses, and technological gadgets, particularly cell phones.
Heavily influenced by a competitive corporate environment, "yuppies" often value those behaviors that they have found useful in gaining upward mobility and hence income and status. They often take their corporate values home to their spouses and children.
According to the stereotype, there is a certain air of informality about them, yet an entire code of unwritten etiquette can govern their activities from golf, tennis and Lacrosse to luncheons at trendy cocktail bars. Older Yuppies tend to side more with the Republicans and Conservatives, while younger Yuppies are generally more "involved" with social causes and tend to be more politically correct, more often siding with the Democrats and Liberals.
Yuppies are sometimes stereotyped as wearing white shirts, blue ties, and black pants.
Okay, okay, so some of this does apply to me there are a few areas that seperate me from a true yuppie:
a) I'm not highly-educated. Everyone these days has a college degree.
b) My income does not place me in the upper-middle economic class. I currently don't even own a car and cannot afford to buy a house.
c) I do not have "bad taste"
d) I may have a new cell phone, but I had the old one for many many years until it started to die.
e) I do not wear white shirts, blue ties, and black pants.
posted by ucla99 at 12:16 AM
2 Comments:
hahah. although you fit a lot of those things that were listed, i think yuppies are also generally considered to be snotty pricks, which you are not.
aa, aaron, you're too busy denying it for it not to be true. it's really okay. i still love you. :)
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