Coquettish Rebirth

The so-called upper class society is actually not so easy to join. ↖Top↖Point↖Xiao↖ Said that Jia Hongjian, who used to hold parties every day in Los Angeles to attract various celebrities, understood this!There are circles not only in China, but also in the United States. In many cases, just being rich can't integrate into the local circles, and in the end you are just a "rich person".When he was courting various celebrities in Los Angeles, Jia Hongjian knew that the celebrities in the United States, or the high society, were actually quite conservative.Los Angeles is better, because it is the performing arts center, and many actors from all over the world come here every year, and become famous overnight.So relatively speaking, the upper class in Los Angeles is relatively open-minded. Basically, as long as they have a certain influence, they are willing to accept such a person into the upper class. Otherwise, all kinds of celebrities cannot be included in the upper class?

In China maybe celebrities are really not considered the upper class, but it is different in the United States.The United States is not like Europe that pays attention to aristocratic blood or something. The upper class of the New World is made up of rich people who have not had a history of hundreds of years.Therefore, to be an upper class in the United States, as long as you have money, you can be an upper class. Although it does not mean that you can be an upper class if you have money, but you must be rich if you can be an upper class.Celebrities in the United States also earn quite a lot of money. They can participate in various charity galas, and they can spend a lot of money. If this is not considered high society, then what is considered high society?

Of course, after Jia Hongjian integrated into the upper class in Los Angeles, he also heard about the conservative side in New York.Although it is said that New York is the economic center and performing arts center of the East Coast, relatively speaking, this New York may be because it is the first batch of colonies, which were established before Los Angeles and California in the middle of the 19th century!That's right, it was originally when the United States was founded.Los Angeles and California still belong to Mexico. Later, in the 19th century war between the United States and Mexico, Mexico lost and had to cede California and other territories to the United States.Then around 1848, during the gold rush of the "Great Western Development", California became the No. 30 state in the United States!Then Los Angeles was established as a city at the same time, and there were only 1600 people living in the whole of California at that time!And what about New York?It was around 1626 that the Dutch and the local natives bought Manhattan Island.Named "New Amsterdam".So really, New York was founded 200 years before Los Angeles was founded!New York is regarded as the first batch of colonies in the United States, how could it be unconservative?

So according to the celebrities in Los Angeles, the high society in New York is a bunch of antiques!By old antique, it means that people here still hold an old-fashioned viewpoint, believing that money alone is not enough for a person, and that if he wants to integrate into the upper class society, it depends on whether the person's money is "new money" or "Old money".What is new money and old money?To put it bluntly, it means how many generations have been rich!This old money is the wealth passed down from the family.That is naturally considered a person of the upper class!But if it is new money, that is, the upstarts, there are not many people who will play with the upstarts. The upstarts are not very able to integrate into the upper class of New York. We have to wait for such a family to become rich for decades If you pass the wealth to the next generation and turn the new money into old money, then you will slowly accept the other party into the upper class.

Such a rule sounds very old-fashioned.However, it is said that New York still has various methods to accelerate the "depreciation" of new money. After all, this is what era it is.No matter how old-fashioned the upper class of New York is, it is impossible to be so conservative.And Jia Hongjian wanted to enter such an upper-class society, the speed can be said to be very fast.He didn't have to wait for his new money to slowly depreciate, because in fact, to put it bluntly, whether an upstart in New York can enter the upper class, in fact, mainly depends on whether the upper class accepts such a person.If not accepted.Then slowly wait for the qualifications, and only after being able to change from a nouveau riche to being rich for three generations can he be accepted.But at the same time, some people, even if they were rich yesterday, can be accepted by the upper class today...

The earliest in the early 19th century.New York's high society refers to the small circle of "400 people" with the Est family at its core.In the early years, the Astor family quickly became rich by virtue of its ancestor John Jacob Astor's fur trade with the Chinese. ".It is said that Esther's daughter-in-law, Caroline Esther, was the queen of New York social circles at that time. She had a list of 19 people in her hand, which recorded in detail the ladies and ladies of famous families in American society.Every time she holds a ball, the participants are drawn according to this list, without exception.Later, in American English, "400 people" specifically refers to such a small circle of upper class.

It is not easy to get an invitation from Caroline Astor.The upper class always regards themselves as "noble" and excludes "upstarts" from entering their inner circle.In fact, to put it bluntly, in the eyes of the European aristocrats, the upper class in the United States is nothing more than a bunch of mud legs that blow up the rich.But these rich mud legs are pretending to learn the style of various nobles.Although Vanderbilt, the railway king, was rich and powerful, Mrs. Vanderbilt has always been scorned and excluded by Mrs. Esther.Mrs. Vanderbilt tried her best to break into Mrs. Esther's social circle.And this Mrs. Esther is at best in the United States, but in old Europe, she is just an outcast!

Of course, the "Mrs. Estes" also knew this very well, so in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the upper class of the American nouveau riche were all kinds of people who were keen on intermarriage with European Old Continent nobles. !To put it bluntly, isn't it just to get the blood of the nobles?Don't you still feel inferior because you have no noble blood and only money?So in those days, such an intermarriage was actually a way to quickly turn new money into old money.At that time, such a marriage was equivalent to a political marriage, or even a marriage for the sake of status.Many of the old nobles in Europe slowly fell into poverty in that era. They had nothing but blood. It just so happened that the American natives had a lot of money and desperately wanted to get into the upper class, so why didn’t they come here? What about a parentally arranged marriage?In this way, the mud legs in the United States can get the blood and identity of the nobility, while the dilapidated old nobility in Europe can get a lot of money and start enjoying life again. This is good for everyone!

On the other hand, the mud-legged people in the United States, after marrying the old European aristocrats, suddenly felt that their blood was the noble blood of the aristocrats, and they all pretended to be aggressive, as if their family was no longer mud-legged. Son was born!Just like the guys who have rebelled will deal with their original comrades more cold-bloodedly, these American mud legs with European blood also despise other local upstart families without European noble blood.The rejection of the "new rich" by the upper class is not spared even by the most powerful people in the country.According to legend, an old aristocrat in Boston has always been worried about the history of the Kennedy family's prosperity. Even after Kennedy became the president of the United States, he still did not forget to curse the Kennedy family as "buggy, low-spirited Irishmen on the street" and refused to communicate with the Kennedy family. Kennedy family contacts.And assuming that the Kennedy family had intermarried with European aristocrats in history, then the comment of "the vagabond, despicable Irishman" would definitely not fall on the Kennedy family!Of course, in the United States, it is "economic strength" that ultimately determines a person's status in society.

Of course, for Jia Hongjian, such a matter of laundering old money with new money is not difficult, and it doesn't take much time. It only needs Murdoch to introduce him, and that's enough!This Murdoch has already penetrated into the upper class of the United States for decades, and although Jia Hongjian is an upstart who explodes the rich, he can be considered to have a certain influence in the United States, and he has also been favored by many people. Such a person is respected - the most important thing to be respected is the new industries he created in the Internet age!Such as online shopping platforms, search engines, etc., which are more general, such as the recent tablet that has reduced the price of textbooks, which makes ordinary people respect him.After all, he alone solved the problems that no one in the United States has solved for decades!And here in New York, if you want to quickly enter the upper class, one of the indispensable points is that you can't just have money, you must have a certain social influence, and you must at least stand up and let many people respect and respect this talent!

In the past, New York's high society who had climbed up to the European aristocracy could despise the American political upstarts, but not now.And through statistics, it can be found that the political upstarts in the United States are basically not from traditional big families. Many of them may be quite rich, but they are really incomparable with those Rockefeller families.But now people like the Bush family and the Clinton family have entered the upper class, which proves that the upper class in the United States has begun to accept all kinds of people with social influence, and they also need to keep pace with the times!Jia Hongjian is not a nouveau riche who started his business without any influence. He has made some contributions to American society.Relying on this point, and the mobile phone he produced almost prevented Motorola from selling any mobile phones in the past year, and the sphone mobile phone he produced seemed to create a new industry, which made him own it all at once. Enter the foundations of this high society.The rest, that is, as long as someone introduces it, it will be fine! (To be continued..)