Traditionally, the mainstream Americans were called WASPs, that is, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.

传统上读，美国人的主流是祖先为英国新教徒的白人。

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Traditionally, the mainstream American were called WASPs, that is , White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.

传统上读，美国人的主流是祖先为英国新教徒的白人。

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But it is true that President Obama didn't care for Gordon Brown, and doesn't have an instinctive, ancestral love for the UK that is common among Wasps (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) on the Eastern seaboard.

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Originally pushed by white Anglo-Saxon Protestants who wanted to make sure immigrants absorbed their view of the world, compulsory education soon was embraced by industrialists who saw the benefit of an educated workforce, Levin says.

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