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Nouveau riche of those with new money as compared to those with old money. Many have made claims that "nouveaux riches" "lack political and cultural sophistication" and others make comparisons saying that the old rich are "more sophisticated than the less cosmopolitan nouveau riche". These assumptions further perpetuate the differences between the two and lead to even further stereotypes and have lasted for well over a century. In the 1920s, Mrs. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, who herself married into a family once considered "parvenu" and lacking in pedigree, protested that ""the nouveau riche"... is making places like Palm Beach no more exclusive than