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Growing Up White in the South I grew up in a nouveau riche suburb of Nashville, a place where any privilege I experienced felt only theoretical.
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In movies and on television, Smith writes, America exported "the hygienic ideals of the affluent American suburbs, including a fervent nouveau riche obsession with domestic and personal cleanliness".
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Also, "nouveau riche" is singular; the plural is "nouveaux riches".
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Call them the ganja riche.
"They were all nouveau riche.
Petersburg suburb.
Pourtant, sa riche personnalité mérite l'attention.
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