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		chasd00 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdra... Just want to point out that “old money” in the USA is a different thing than “old money” in Europe. The whole USA is only around 350 years old.

EFreethought 4 months ago [–]

Some of the American old money came from European old money.

adastra22 4 months ago | [–]

Very, very few. Those were mostly loyalists and left in 1776.

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