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Jewish American Princess |
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Jewish American Princess n US slang an American Jewish girl of a prosperous family, regarded as being typically pampered and spoilt Abbreviation JAP How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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While Walker invokes the Jewish American Princess to allude to the whitening of the Jews through the materialistic pursuit of the American dream, the stereotype notably differentiates Jews, and specifically Jewish women, from other white suburbanites or consumers: the J in JAP falsely suggests that Jewish consumption is a brand all its own (see Beck and Prell). Alas, Morrison keeps his clothes on in his new film, Marci X, a fish-out-of-water comedy penned by Paul Rudnick (Jeffrey, In & Out) about a Jewish American princess (Lisa Kudrow) who, at the behest of a her dying media mogul father, tries to reform the old man's unruly record label and its in-your-face ripper, Dr. |
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