請問雅痞 - CK

※ 引述《loloool (小血)》之銘言：
: ※ 引述《gottsuan (ごっつぁんです)》之銘言：
: : yuppie = young urban professional
: : 如果你不是年輕 住都會的專業人士
: : 那你就失格了 :p
: 前幾天寫考古題時有寫到類似的題目...當不成雅痞的人可以參考看看
: BOBO族(BOBOs)
: 係源於David Brook(2000)所著之<Brooks In Paradise>一書，BOBO族原意為波希米亞
: 式的中產階級(Bourgeois Bohemians)之縮寫，意指高學歷、高品味、收入高且肯消費至
: 多無紙化的方式溝通。此詞可謂80年代雅痞一詞之延伸，因90年代資訊科技發達，使美
: 國戰後嬰兒潮之時代，得用資訊科技創作並累積財富，成為當代資本主義的精英領導者。

大家可以參考看看~
來自wikipedia(維基百科)的解釋:

Yuppie, short for "Young Urban Professional," describes a demographic of
people comprising baby boomers as well as people in their late twenties and
early thirties. Yuppies tend to hold jobs in the professional sector, with
incomes that place them in the upper-middle economic class. The term "Yuppie"
emerged in the early 1980s as an ironic echo of the earlier "hippies" and
"yippies" who had rejected the materialistically oriented values of the
business community. Although the original yuppies were "young," the term now
applies as well to people of middle age.

Syndicated newspaper columnist Bob Greene is generally credited with having
stolen the term "Yuppie" in one of his columns in the early 1980s,
plagiarizing Alice Kahn who famously wrote about them in the East Bay Express
in 1982, but the first known citation of the word is in a May 13, 1981
article entitled "Chicago: City on the brink" by R. C. Longworth in the
Chicago Tribune.

The term is often used pejoratively, with an emphasis on the connotations of
"yuppies" as selfish and superficial. In the novel A Very British Coup, the
Prime Minister Harry Perkins comments on the greed of Thatcherite yuppies in
a speech.

The yuppie stereotype

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 and early 1970s). 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 Gordon Gekko in the
movie Wall Street.

In accordance with their conservatism, yuppies are more likely to support the
Republican Party.

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 microbrewed and imported beer. 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.

The yuppies' fast-paced pursuit of material goods can have unintended
consequences. Usually in a hurry, "yuppies" may seek convenience goods and
services. Being "time poor," their family relations can become difficult to
sustain. Maintaining their way of life is mentally exhausting. Sometimes,
they will move every few years to where their job goes, straining their
family. This fast-paced lifestyle has been termed a rat race. Many of these
yuppies are said to be "credit posers" and undertake a large amount of debt
to maintain their outward image. To an extent, some of them essentially live
"paycheck-to-paycheck" -- the paychecks are simply larger.

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 and tennis to luncheons at trendy cocktail bars.

One of the better-known and more notorious depictions of yuppies was found in
Bret Easton Ellis' controversial 1991 novel, American Psycho, which
satirically lambasted the values of yuppies with a hyper-materialistic,
murderously self-absorbed protagonist.

Yuppies tend to be associated with city or suburban dwellers. The term is
commonly used by traditional country folk and good ol' boys in reference to
people who live the stereotypical urban or suburban lifestyle. Entire city
districts have been associated with the yuppie phenomenon; in the 1980s and
1990s, the redeveloped Docklands of London became widely regarded as a (very
upmarket) "yuppie slum"; San Francisco's formerly working-class Noe Valley
neighborhood is similarly afflicted with yuppie-sm, not to mention Houston's
Midtown and Galleria districts (Houston's Midtown was once dominated by
Vietnamese-run businesses until lofts were built in the mid-1990s). Similar
accusations have been levelled against expensively renovated areas - usually
low-rent communities - in a number of other cities around the world.

Yuppies are sometimes stereotyped as wearing white shirts, blue ties, and
black pants.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuppie

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