The Anglo-Saxon term of White Protesting (shortened by the Acronym WASP ) indicates literally and in practice the white of English origin (called " Anglo-Saxon ") Protestant which emigrated in mass with the the United States as of the first colonies founders, and the thought and the lifestyle were structural for this nation.

The WASP worked out the demographic concept of Creuset for this space in which they were going to accommodate immigrants come from the whole world to be added to the base of the first Anglo-Saxon settlement that they had carried out.

The bond of article towards the medieval Anglo-Saxon of the Western Europe which ensured the settlement of British Isles induced in error; thus, of the banished communities of Germany by the wars of religion belong to the WASP.

It is not the case of another important origin of the settlement known as white of the country, the catholic Irish. For this reason, one reproached to the president John Fitzgerald Kennedy his nonmembership of community WASP at the time of his supreme nomination.

One refers to it today in term of sociology in order to differentiate the communities and the lifestyles, in a direction bringing back to this original traditionalism that the WASP preached.

For the claiming extremism of the Afro-American S of the Years 1960, the WASP were the opposing community, then majority, against which they polarized.

In the Sun Belt, an association of terms between the WASP and the families enriched which perpetuate their economic dynamism while being employed in finance companies or the field of the Droit, carry out another sociological opposition: this implies that the members of the other communities the such Hispanique S () or the community Afro-American are there to serve them by subordinates employment in which they would be confined.

Diversion of the acronym

• By Retro-acronymie:
• Nowadays, WASP (BASP in French and Esperanto) is related to KKK, with the hidden direction of White race, Anti-Semite, Puritan (“white Race, anti-semite, puritan”).
• W.A.S.P. is a group of heavy American metal whose name would mean We are sexual perverts. (“We are of the sexual perverts. ”) or What has sex party! (“what a Orgy! ”).
• In English, the word wasp means “Guêpe”.