If they are into music, they will go to a conservatoire. The kids will not study dippy subjects at uni but will be encouraged towards things like law, medicine, and classics. Knowledge of Latin and Greek used to be more common your older family members will be better versed in these subjects, but it's still taught well in the public schools. In the UK, they'd usually be fluent in French or German. "I'm from the UK, so we may have slightly different customs, but we have a lot of very old and wealthy families here with hereditary titles and historic family homes. WHISPERS OLD MONEY: "Fluency in another language is much more likely (due to a better general education)." "Ultimately, it was a lack of understanding that didn't necessarily come with any disdain or antipathy."Ģ0. "Every so often, this disconnect would show up in more overt ways: They'd tell people abused at work to just quit their jobs, or tell kids on scholarship (me) to 'take a break from work and come party' - not realizing that you wouldn't be able to enjoy yourself knowing that you had a paper to finish, and that if you didn't finish it, you could drop a grade, lose your scholarship, and be unable to attend next semester. Sometimes they'd even offer to help pay for a meal, but you could see the confusion in their faces when they picked up on the fact that you were still stressed, because they didn't realize you were now worrying about your next meal. They could hear about your stress and just shrug it off because they didn't get what it's like to be financially insecure. If you talked about how stressed you were over paying the rent or having to eat tofu and spend hours on food prep, they wouldn't insult you about it or think less of you - but it was very clear they didn't understand the emotional weight of those problems. "I jumped between poor and middle class as a kid and wound up going to college with a bunch of rich folk. WHISPERS OLD MONEY: "Not understanding the stress that comes from being poor or middle class." New money people often have a chip on their shoulder about it."ġ5. They all spoke very quietly, and everyone shut the hell up when the matriarch spoke. Never ordered a bottle of wine that cost more than $140 and discussed it as if they knew what they were talking about. They tipped cultural standard and no more, no less. They didn't flaunt their money and usually treated me very well.
Not super-old money, but they got rich on Russell Stover's.
They stand when their elders arrive, leave, or use the bathroom. "This is a fairly specific set of instances, but I've worked in very expensive restaurants, and old money people are polite AF. Again, I saw a lot more open snobbery in my hometown - my truly wealthy friends showed the same level of politeness with everyone." They always knew who you were supposed to tip and how much was appropriate. My rich friends are very big on thank-you notes, formal greetings, and never turning up to an event empty-handed. "I would get handwritten invitations to dinner at my friends' houses, and a handwritten thank-you note for any birthday or Christmas gifts, regardless of how little they cost. WHISPERS OLD MONEY: "Adherence to old-school traditions and notions of politeness."
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