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   Boston Brahmin   
      
   Wikipedia   
      
   A Boston Brahmin is a member of Boston's traditional   
   upper class. Members of this class are characterized by   
   their highly discreet and inconspicuous lifestyle.   
   Members of Boston's Brahmin class form an integral part   
   of the historic core of the East Coast establishment, and   
   are often associated with the distinctive Boston Brahmin   
   accent, Harvard University, and traditional Anglo-   
   American customs and clothing. Descendants of the   
   earliest English colonists, such as those who came to   
   America on the Mayflower or the Arbella, are often   
   considered to be the most representative of the Boston   
   Brahmins.[citation needed]   
      
   The term was coined by the physician and writer Oliver   
   Wendell Holmes, Sr., in an 1860 article in the Atlantic   
   Monthly.[1] The term Brahmin refers to the highest   
   ranking caste of people in the traditional Hindu system   
   of castes. In the United States, it has been applied to   
   the old, wealthy New England families of British   
   Protestant origin which were influential in the   
   development of American institutions and culture. The   
   term effectively underscores the strong conviction of the   
   New England gentry that they were a people set apart by   
   destiny to guide the American experiment as their   
   ancestors had played a leading role in founding it. The   
   term also serves to illustrate the erudite and exclusive   
   nature of the New England gentry as perceived by   
   outsiders, and may also refer to their interest in   
   Eastern religions, fostered perhaps by the impact in the   
   19th century of the transcendentalist writings of New   
   England literary icons as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt   
   Whitman, and the enlightened appeal of Universalist   
   Unitarian movements of the same period.   
      
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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Brahmin   
      
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