Parvenu

A parvenu (from French: parvenir, go to some) is an upstart, one in the first generation to wealth Come person to whom the disability is assumed to adjust to the better circles that therefore " the need no longer in abundance and not at home ". It is a derogatory term with the connotation of the uncultured and uneducated, which was especially used by nobles for intermediates at the court. According to later nouveau riche of the traditionally wealthy were also derisively called as parvenus. The American myth of rags to riches can be understood as a value based solely on economic success rise in the social hierarchy.

Description

The term upstart is a translation of Philip of Zesen for the word parvenu. In English-speaking nouveau riche is considered an antonym for old money. Similar concepts have been known since Roman times, as in Homo novus ( German: new man ).

In a narrower sense, the term of Hannah Arendt is used, indicated in its discussion of the history of Judaism in Europe, especially in her biography of Rahel Varnhagen, upward mobility and assimilation aspiring Jews as parvenus, because of the predominantly anti-Jewish attitude surrounding the companies their goal of a merger with the respective nationality can not reach and get caught up in a kind of self-deception. Dichotomously to be influenced by it, the concept of Paria, as a term for refusing the assimilation of Jews. The two terms pariah and parvenu can also refer generally to persons who occupy a position as an outsider in a society, and seek to overcome this without success.