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12	->''"These are highly educated folk who have one foot in the bohemian world of creativity and another foot in the bourgeois realm of ambition and worldly success."''
13	-->-- '''David Brooks''', ''Bobos in Paradise''
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15	The Bourgeois Bohemian (or "[=BoBo=]") is what the {{Hipster}} or GranolaGirl often turns into once they've hit middle age and joined the management team, or what the NewAgeRetroHippie might have become had they not dropped out.
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17	The defining trait of Bourgeois Bohemians is that, while they belong comfortably to the upper or upper-middle class in socioeconomic terms, their tastes and values are often inherited from the counterculture and New Left movements of TheSixties. Expect them to have very open attitudes towards religion and spirituality (or the lack thereof), sexuality (free love, LGBT+), and recreational drug use, and to champion liberal or progressive causes (such as saving the rainforest or protecting endangered species in remote places).
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19	They are avid consumers of culture, particularly from left-of-center, state-owned or funded media -- e.g. Creator/{{PBS}} (Public Broadcasting Service, USA), Creator/{{NPR}} (National Public Radio, USA), Creator/{{CBC}} (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), Creator/TheBBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), and [[Creator/AustralianBroadcastingCorporation The ABC]] (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). They love organic, locally sourced, hand-crafted, and artisanal products but will also often buy expensive high-end tools, appliances, and gear to pursue their hobbies.
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21	Typically disdaining conventional suburban tract housing, their home might be a unique mansion in an affluent old neighborhood or a swanky condo right in the heart of the big city, but it's always decked out in exotic handcrafted decorations and art from around the world, often from their globe-trotting trips.
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23	[[StrawmanPolitical Unsympathetic examples]] of the trope will often be portrayed as being hypocritical about their wealth, criticizing other wealthy elites while sharing much of their income bracket and lifestyle. Sympathetic portrayals will usually portray them as the CoolOldGuy or CoolOldLady, without any suggestion that progressive principles and wealth are incompatible.
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25	The trope originated in the 1890s as an insulting depiction of well-off city dwellers. The trope emerged among Socialists rather than the nationalists, with Populists in the United States and Labourites in Britain using it to mock their more bourgeois liberal/socialist counterparts. The term changed a bit over the 1900s. These people have also been called "champagne socialists" in the U.K., "gauche caviar" in France, and "limousine liberals" or "latte liberals" in the U.S. Anti-liberal and anti-socialist nationalists and conservatives began to co-opt it in the mid-20th century. The [[TropeNamer term itself]], however, comes from the 2000 book ''Bobos in Paradise'' by the conservative ''[[UsefulNotes/AmericanNewspapers New York Times]]'' columnist David Brooks. Brooks identified Bourgeois Bohemians -- "bobos" for short -- as Baby Boomers like himself who had grown up with the individualistic, do-it-yourself ethos of the 1960s counterculture but now found themselves in TheNineties as well-off, middle-aged professionals, often in creative or technology industries.
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27	Often someone's HippieParents, and often SelfMadeMan and NouveauRiche, having earned their comfortable living after a poor and rebellious youth. A bobo could also be a {{yuppie}} if the young urban professional is politically left-leaning.
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29	See also: TheManIsStickingItToTheMan, RichKidTurnedSocialActivist, RuleAbidingRebel, FoxNewsLiberal, UpperClassTwit, and GirlbossFeminist. If the aging character becomes conservative rather than retain their counterculture values, they're a FormerTeenRebel. CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority may motivate young {{Hipster}} Bobos.
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33	!!Examples:
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38	* ''UndergroundComics'' artist Mary Fleener met some of these people. Like an ex-hippie girl turned stereotypical yuppie and a former (female) drug dealer who became a realtor.
39	* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', Frank and Leslie Dean are an extremely cynical version of the Bourgeois Bohemian, pretending to be reformed hippies in order to disguise the fact that they're actually alien criminals.
40	%%* Billy's grandmother, Sky, from Season 9 of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.
41	* Oliver Queen, aka ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'', has become the main superhero comics representative of this archetype over the years. Quite how rich and powerful he is, and quite how sincere and thoughtful his politics are, tends to vary with how sympathetically the [[DependingOnTheWriter writer]] views him.
42	* ''ComicBook/{{Persepolis}}'': Marjane's parents. They staunchly oppose the Shah and later the Islamic fundamentalists due to their violations of human rights. At the same time, they're prosperous and [[AdoptAServant keep a girl (then woman) whom they basically adopted during her childhood as their live-in servant]], thinking nothing of it.
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46	* Most of the original main characters in ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' are this, to the point where it actually becomes a plot point in the AnimatedAdaptation ''WesternAnimation/ADoonesburySpecial''.
47	* British cartoonist Posy Simmonds spent much of the 1980s satirizing this type of person in her comic strips for ''The Guardian'', whose readership tended that way.
48	* Vitriolically parodied in John Fardell's ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'' strips "The Modern Parents" and "The Critics". The protagonists of both are wealthy, privileged cultural leftists with shallow, ignorant politics, who are massively socially and intellectually snobbish.
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52	* ''Fanfic/AnywhereButHere'': Unlike the rest of her family, Pink had aspirations of joining the arts (singing mostly) and had various negative things to say about her family's company, both in how it exploits its workers and how much it damages the environment. When it was made clear that her parents and grandmother did not care whether she wanted to join the family business or not, she ended up [[TheRunaway running away]] with Pearl, faking her own death, and becoming active protester Rose.
53	* Mary Parker in ''Fanfic/LiesOfOmission'' has a love of crystals and holistic healing and is a firm believer in them, though Peter claims that it's all a part of her life-defining habit of [[ControlFreak controlling everything]], in this case her health.
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57	* ''Film/MeetTheFockers'': Greg's parents (Dustin Hoffman and Barbara Streisand) are pretty well-off, and they also embrace some pretty weird activities (an over-the-top parody of New Age beliefs popular at the time).
58	%%* ''Film/{{Tanguy}}'''s parents.
59	%%* The protagonists of ''Film/{{Mammoth}}'', a 2009 film by Lukas Moodyson.
60	* ''Film/FlirtingWithDisaster'': Ben Stiller's real parents (played by Alan Alda and Lily Tomlin) are a pair of aging, affluent hippies who still use drugs recreationally.
61	%%* Jane in ''Film/ItsComplicated'', though her ex-husband seems to be more of the businessman type.
62	%%* Olive's parents in ''Film/EasyA''.
63	* ''Everybody'' in ''Film/TheBigChill'', having been part of the '60s counterculture while studying at the University of Michigan.
64	* Varying degrees in the main characters in ''Film/TheDeclineOfTheAmericanEmpire'' and ''Film/TheBarbarianInvasions'', by Quebecois director Denys Arcand. They like to talk about sex and left-wing politics and the emptiness of conventional morality, but they're all super-bourgeois types that drink wine and eat fancy salmon dinners.
65	%%* Calvin's mother and stepdad in ''Film/RubySparks''.
66	%%* Bob and Carol in ''Film/BobAndCarolAndTedAndAlice'' (1969) are an early example.
67	* ''Film/{{Coherence}}'': This is Beth's characterization. The film takes place in her very nice home, so she's obviously wealthy. She mentions a number of New Age beliefs and habitually uses recreational drugs.
68	* Ferdinand in ''Pierrot Le Fou'' is so pissed off by this type that he abandons his family and [[ChaoticNeutral goes on an existentialist rampage]] with his children's nanny.
69	* Cleo in ''Film/TheScribbler''. She dresses in hippie[=/=]gypsy garb, her speech tends towards SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, and she doesn't go anywhere without her pet boa constrictor draped around her shoulders.
70	* Dean and Missy Armitage in ''Film/{{Get Out\|2017}}'' are a villainous example. Upper-middle-class suburbanites who go out of their way to present themselves as progressive and non-racist people, this doesn't stop them from being [[CondescendingCompassion incredibly condescending]] towards Chris, treating young black people like human props, and [[spoiler:ultimately stealing their bodies so they can enjoy extended lives with the "physical advantages" of being young and black]].
71	* ''Film/{{Trumbo}}'': Dalton Trumbo is a wealthy screenwriter as well as an unashamed Communist, as was TruthInTelevision.
72	* ''Film/KnivesOut'' has Joni Thrombrey and her daughter Meg as another negative example. Joni is a lifestyle guru who was married to the wealthy Harlan Thrombrey's son before he died, while Meg is a college student majoring in an obscure social science major at an expensive liberal arts college. Both of them espouse progressive, left-wing views while relying on Harlan's money to fund their expensive lifestyles. [[spoiler:Once it's revealed that Harlan has cut them out of his will after discovering Joni was embezzling him and plans on giving everything to his underprivileged, in-house nurse and friend Marta, the two of them show their true colors and attempt to blackmail her into giving the inheritance to them by threatening to get her mother deported so they can continue to live their comfy, superficial lifestyles.]]
73	* ''Film/{{Irresistible}}'': A Democratic mayoral candidate for a small Wisconsin town must fly to Washington DC to have a fundraiser luncheon with wealthy liberals who will ultimately donate millions of dollars to his campaign. The main character, a Democratic political strategist, is himself an example, being liberal as well as culturally out of touch with working-class America.
74	* ''Film/FatherOfTheBride2022'': Adan is from a rich family but is a vegetarian and enough of a hippie to want his guru to officiate the wedding.
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78	* ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'': Thomas "Stoner" Stone is a last-wave hippie, whose knowledge of chemistry (he made LSD in the sixties) has made him one of the richest men in Europe, with a personal fortune that rivals that of many nations. He is completely devoted to the ideals of peace, love, and understanding, in word and deed. For example, he refuses payment for all medicines he makes, only making money from dyes and cosmetics. Profiting from people's vanity is OK, profiting from their pain is not.
79	* In ''Literature/TheIsland'', India is an example of this, although her sister Birdie is much more conservative. India is the widow of a famous artist and she is a college professor.
80	* ''Literature/KeepTheAspidistraFlying'': In a period-accurate version of the trope, Gordon’s friend Philip Ravelston hails from an old-money family, yet publishes the melodramatically-named magazine ''Antichrist'' which espouses radical Socialism. Ravelston is rich enough that he can afford to crank out this obscure publication, overpay Gordon and several [[StarvingArtist similar writers]], and lead a relatively sumptuous lifestyle, all the while lacking ''any actual job''.
81	* The Chalfen family of ''Literature/WhiteTeeth'' is a mixed Jewish/Catholic couple (though they don't practice either religion) who were former hippies with a strong interest in Hinduism and other "alternative" religions. The novel shows that, about two decades later, they are raising a family of overachieving children in a suburb of North London. While (to their credit) the Chalfens send their kids to a [[TheGoodOldBritishComp comprehensive]], they are also shown (by their magazine subscriptions) to be strong aficionados of socialism, anarchism, what-have-you despite their material comfort (the mother is a successful author of gardening books, while the father is a cutting-edge genetic engineer). The book portrays them more or less sympathetically: they are not arrogant or hypocritical, just incredibly clueless about reality (like when they take a gang member who goes to their kids' school under their wing and [[TheFarmerAndTheViper show him great compassion]] [[StupidGood even though he is very angry and rude and a potential terrorist]]).
82	%%* The protagonist's parents in ''The Elegance of the Hedgehog''.
83	%%* The protagonists of ''Freedom'' by Jonathan Franzen.
84	* Young Jolyon from ''Literature/TheForsyteSaga'' is very much a political liberal by the standards of the time. He left his first wife and his eldest daughter to live with another woman, start a family with her, and become an artist. And even after he inherits his father's fortune, which makes it possible for him to raise also his younger three children in an upper-middle-class lifestyle, he sticks by his ideals and remains the antipole to his conservative cousin Soames.
85	* In ''Literature/{{Madicken}}'', Madicken's father is a newspaper editor, so he's rich enough to give his daughters a privileged upper-middle-class upbringing. And the family belongs to the upper crust of the small town. Even so, he is proud to be a socialist and gets really angry when other rich people treat poor people badly.
86	* Literature/SirHenryMerrivale is the 1930s equivalent: from an aristocratic family, he's nevertheless a Socialist who enjoys an evening in the pub playing darts with the proletariat.
87	* Gary Karkofsky AKA Merciless: The Supervillain without [=MercyTM=] from ''Literature/TheSupervillainySaga'' eventually becomes this. Gary starts off as having a strongly anti-capitalist angry punk view of the world that he is fighting "The Man" as a supervillain against. However, he then actually succeeds (at least in Falconcrest City) and wipes out the establishment (that turned out to be an evil cult) before stealing their billions. From that point on, he uses the money to help the have-nots in the city but is still extremely wealthy.
88	* ''Literature/TheStrangerTimes'': A minor character named Paulo runs a shop catering to hippies who can casually drop £140 on a salt lamp. One of his customers, [[PretentiousPronunciation Lionel (pronounced Leeohnel)]] funds his aspirational-crunchy lifestyle with a corporate day job.
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92	* ''Series/FamilyTies'', which is centered around the conflicts between Bobo parents and their Reaganite conservative offspring.
93	* The Hillard-Findlay family from ''{{Series/Maude}}'' is an early example: An upper-middle-class household that supports the liberal side of the main issues of the 1970s, most notably feminism.
94	* ''Series/{{thirtysomething}}'' also lives for this trope. All of the main characters first became friends as part of the '60s counterculture, and have become standard-issue '80s yuppies.
95	%%* Dharma's parents in ''Series/DharmaAndGreg''.
96	* ''Series/{{Beef}}'': Jordan, the home improvement chain store owner Amy is hoping to sell her small business to, expresses interest in the art and philosophies of other cultures and has an otherwise 'zen' (read: wishy-washy) personality.
97	* Nora Walker in ''Series/BrothersAndSisters'' is a classic upper-middle-class housewife who drives a Prius and fervently supports socially liberal causes, but lives in a huge house and throws extravagant parties.
98	* Paul Kinsey on ''Series/MadMen'' is the {{beatnik}} version.
99	* ''Series/{{Portlandia}}'' makes fun of the counter-culture scene of Portland, Oregon. Many characters are middle-aged professionals with bohemian values.
100	* You could also definitely include Warren and Lois Whelan -- Debra's wealthy (or at least upper-middle-class) parents -- from ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond''. When they first appear, Ray, Frank, and Marie are not looking forward to it, groaning about how much Warren and Lois basically embody this trope to a tee, and how different their own blue-collar family is from the Whelans. When they arrive later in the episode, HilarityEnsues obviously. Over the course of the series, Warren and Lois continue to embody this trope, leading to more awkwardness (and hilarity) when they and the Barones interact.
101	* Jonah in ''Series/SuperStore'' is a college-educated metrosexual leftist who is the son of two psychologists, working for a dystopian mega-corporation with most of his fellow workers being high school educated at best, and due to their workload and personal problems, unable to care much about anything more than living paycheck to paycheck. The other employees constantly give him shit for it, Garrett especially. This part of his personality eventually develops into leading the attempt to unionise the store, and later he decides to run for city council.
102	* George in ''Series/BoredToDeath'', played by Ted Danson, is a pot-smoking hippie who runs a magazine similar to ''Magazine/TheNewYorker''. He's quite wealthy but still has his left-wing lifestyle and opinions. In the second season, he suffers a serious clash of cultures when his magazine is bought out by a right-wing organization.
103	%%* Fanny Flowers in ''Series/{{Bunheads}}''.
104	* French Canadian sketch comedy ''Les Bobos'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: a satirical depiction of a couple of Bourgeois Bohemians living in Montreal's hippest neighborhood.
105	* In ''Series/{{Saxondale}}'' Tommy Saxondale and Mags are a NewAgeRetroHippie and GranolaGirl respectively but live in a fairly middle-class suburban neighborhood, and own their own businesses. Of course, being a BritCom, this contradiction is the whole point of the show.
106	* The Fourth Doctor in ''Series/DoctorWho'' is an extremely weird variation of this archetype. His appearance and personality are modelled on Victorian bohemians like Creator/HenriDeToulouseLautrec and Creator/OscarWilde, but he has as much material wealth as he needs, is technically a ''Lord'' and possesses lots of stereotypically upper-class mannerisms and interests. He makes a [[CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority great show of being anti-authoritarian]] and his hatred of it is genuine, but spends much of his run as the puppet of the Time Lords, fulfilling their orders (although he does show notable resentment whenever he's aware this is happening and usually only plays along because not doing so would be catastrophic on a potentially world-or-universe-ending level, which the Time Lords of course exploit).
107	* Frankie of ''Series/GraceAndFrankie'' is a combination of Hippie, New Age, and far-left stereotypes. But she is also clearly accustomed to the high standard of living she enjoyed as a lawyer's wife and has a history of making expensive purchases, ironically intended to help her get more in touch with the spiritual and less with the material.
108	* ''Series/{{Dickinson}}'': Thoreau came off like this. Despite his claims about "living alone in the woods" he was actually right near civilization, his mother doing the cooking and his laundry. He's a well-off man who can quit whenever he'd like and is only indulging in this haphazardly to make a point of valuing nature.
109	* ''Series/SchittsCreek'': David Rose and his whole social scene are artistic bohemians from extremely wealthy backgrounds. His photographer ex-boyfriend Sebastien Raine is a specific example, being a globetrotting, pretentious artist who looks scruffy but, as David puts it, "is wearing an expensive sweater that doesn't look expensive."
110	* ''Series/TheWhiteLotus'' plays with this trope:
111	** Tanya is a 60-something wealthy white woman who loves holistic wellness and is impressed when she thinks a date is involved with Black Lives Matter. However, she ultimately falls short of her ideals when she [[spoiler:convinces a working-class black woman, Belinda, to believe that she's going to bankroll a business with her only to abandon Belinda (with a huge tip) to work on herself]].
112	** Olivia is the daughter of a wealthy family and expresses left-leaning political beliefs in conversation. However, she's also a sociopath and is probably just being fashionable. Her friendship with the non-white and less economically advantaged Paula is shown to be a predatory relationship.
113	* The social circle of GranolaGirl Love Quinn in ''Series/You2018''. Her parents Ray and Dottie are old-money Californians who started a hip, ethical grocery store named Anavrin (Nirvana backwards); Love manages one. Ray and Dottie are introduced at their 30-year vow renewal (called a "Wellkend"), where guests dress in linen, affirm each other, do weed, "confront their inner id", the works. However, they turn out to be {{abusive parents}}. When Joe meets Love's friends, the type of pattern-wearing, wealthy Angelinos who are concerned with things like reiki and Ayurveda, he scoffs at the privilege they have to be making such ethical choices but grows to like them anyway.
114	* ''Series/{{Physical}}'': Simone praises the bohemian, '60s-ish aesthetics and attitudes of her (ostensibly well-off) professor Danny and his wife Sheila.
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118	* Music/PhilOchs's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u52Oz-54VYw Love Me, I'm a Liberal]]" attacks this type from the left for [[RuleAbidingRebel only supporting left-wing aims as long as it isn't personally inconvenient to them]].
119	-->''I go to civil rights rallies\
120	And I put down the old D.A.R.\
121	I love [[Creator/HarryBelafonte Harry]] and [[Creator/SidneyPoitier Sidney]] and [[Creator/SammyDavisJr Sammy]]\
122	I hope every colored boy becomes a star\
123	But don't talk about revolution\
124	That's going a little bit too far\
125	So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal''
126	* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead", a TakeThat to the bourgeois bohemian, hippie, and yuppie lifestyles:
127	-->I don't care about your karma, I don't care about what's hip, No space cadet's gonna tell me what to do...\
128	I can't stand the smell of incense, I don't really like to jog, No Joni Mitchell eight-tracks in my car;\
129	I hate anything organic, even health food makes me sick, You won't catch me sipping Perrier down in some sushi bar.\
130	I don't want no part of that vegetarian scene, I won't buy me a pair of designer jeans, No redwood hot tub to my name...
131	* This sort of character is referenced in Don Henley's haunting hit song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po75VoiMuvo "The Boys of Summer,"]] which is about aging and looking back at the past. The particularly poignant line "saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac" paints a harsh image of contrast: Music/TheGratefulDead represented a freewheeling lifestyle (they openly encouraged bootlegging and it is a large part of Deadhead culture), while Cadillacs are expensive symbols of luxury and social status. (The Ataris' cover version changes the sticker to Music/BlackFlag, which became ironic when Black Flag singer Henry Rollins started pitching for Infiniti.)
132	* "Les Bobos", a song by French singer Renaud, is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: a satirical portrayal of Bourgeois Bohemians. At the end of the song, the singer acknowledges that he may be one of them.
133	* The Music/{{Pulp}} song "Common People" is a TakeThat to one of these.
134	-->''Rent a flat above a shop\
135	Cut your hair and get a job\
136	Smoke some fags and play some pool\
137	Pretend you never went to school\
138	But still you'll never get it right\
139	'Cos when you're laid in bed at night\
140	Watching roaches climb the wall\
141	If you called your Dad he could stop it all''
142	* Mocked in the Music/DeadKennedys song "Holiday in Cambodia"
143	-->''Play ethnicky jazz\
144	To parade your snazz\
145	On your five grand stereo\
146	Braggin' that you know\
147	How the niggers feel cold\
148	And the slums got so much soul''
149	* Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}'s "Salt Of The Earth" from ''Music/BeggarsBanquet'' is sung from the perspective of affluent liberals who lionize the working class as compliant underclasses who they have never had to interact with or deal with personally:
150	-->Let's drink to the hardworking people
151	-->Let's drink to the lowly of birth
152	-->Raise your glass to the good and the evil
153	-->Let's drink to the salt of the earth...
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155	-->When I search a faceless crowd
156	-->A swirling mass of gray and black and white
157	-->They don't look real to me
158	-->In fact they look so strange...
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162	* ''Theatre/KeatingTheMusical'' has the title character assure the audience that "there's nothing wrong with being inner-city elite" in his first song. Paul Keating, the former Australian Prime Minister on whose career the musical is based, is probably the highest-ranking Bobo in Australian history. In the play, his Bobo mannerisms are contrasted with the [[TheBogan bogan-like]] tendencies of both his predecessor Bob Hawke and his successor John Howard.
163	* In ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'', a criticism against the character of Mark is that he's from an upper-class background ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarsdale,_New_York Scarsdale]] is a real suburb of New York City and one of the wealthiest in the area), and his poverty is largely self-imposed; even if he doesn't take any help from his parents, he has the skills to land a job in the media but considers that "selling out." Collins is another example, being a college professor between teaching gigs, and what we know of his life implies that he comes from money too.
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167	* In ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' Jackie Welles' girlfriend Misty Olszewski is this. While her exact economic status is never made clear, she's a lot more well-off than she looks since she makes references to having made trips around the world and hiring expensive services, and her day job is running a mystical goods shop and helping out as being a Ripperdoc nurse. Despite the usual cynicism of the setting, Misty is a genuinely kind-hearted and empathetic woman who does what she can to help the people around her, with her spiritualism being portrayed as positive or at least helpful, rather than being treated as out of touch with her friends and the world around her.
168	* The [[Radio/GTARadio show-within-the-game]] ''Impotent Rage'' in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' is a mocking parody of this trope. Its protagonist Braxton Hunter is a billionaire liberal CEO who moonlights as the titular superhero like a mix of [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]] and Ted Turner, and whose efforts to help the world [[NiceJobBreakingItHero inevitably make things worse]]. His ArchEnemy, the {{Uberm\|ensch}}an, is an ultra-libertarian CorruptCorporateExecutive who [[ForTheEvulz destroys the environment simply because it's fun]] and [[TheBadGuyWins frequently thwarts Impotent Rage]] largely due to [[FailureHero the latter's own incompetence]].
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172	* [[http://www.stuffwhitepeoplelike.com Stuff White People Like]]'s definition of "white people" generally refers to American, metropolitan, bicoastal, college-educated liberals, and includes a lot of Bourgeois Bohemian tastes. The initialism "SWPL" is sometimes used by conservative and right-wing critics as a pejorative term for the type of people described here.
173	* The "SJW Sally" meme is all about this kind of person, decrying all sorts of perceived injustices that she embodies.
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177	* Though he's technically part of a blue-collar household, Brian Griffin of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has most of the stereotypical traits of this type, up to and including driving a Toyota Prius.
178	* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Smug Alert", the adult residents of San Francisco are portrayed as bourgeois bohemians who are so smug and self-satisfied that they enjoy the smell of their own farts.
179	* Though typically portrayed as an UpperClassTwit, Bruce Wayne's (platonic) friend Veronica Vreeland on ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' had donated much of her family's fortune to various charities (mostly stuff relating to animals and the environment, but especially animals). Selina Kyle (a.k.a. Catwoman), [[PretenderDiss who doesn't consider Veronica to be a "real" animal rights activist]], argues that Veronica's only doing what she's doing for appearances and possibly because she feels guilty about all the endangered species her ancestors shot when they were [[GreatWhiteHunter big-game hunters]]. Bruce Wayne (a.k.a. Batman) has come to Veronica's defense at least once, pointing out that regardless of whatever Veronica's motivation is, she's at least doing something responsible with her money (something that ultimately benefits society), which is way more than what can be said for most of the other rich people in Gotham City (at least from what's seen on the show).
180	* In ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'', when defending Cadmus' preparations against the Justice League, Green Arrow refers to himself as "an old lefty" and says that "the government must do for people what people can't do for themselves." While he's ultimately proven wrong about Cadmus, he's still portrayed as sympathetic and sincere. Other episodes openly bring up his left-leaning political leanings, though he never gets as vocal about it as his comic self, and it's primarily kept tongue in cheek.
181	-->'''Captain Atom:''' ''[meeting Green Arrow for the first time]'' I'm not flesh and blood anymore, just living energy.\
182	'''Green Arrow:''' That wouldn't be nuclear energy, would it?\
183	'''Captain Atom:''' With a name like "Captain Atom", what do you think?\
184	'''Green Arrow:''' I think you're what I marched against in college.
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