Editing Yuppie (section)

==Usage outside the United States==
"Yuppie" was in common use in Britain from the early 1980s onward (the [[premiership of Margaret Thatcher]]) and by 1987 had spawned subsidiary terms used in newspapers such as "yuppiedom", "yuppification", "yuppify" and "yuppie-bashing".<ref>{{citation |last1=Algeo |first1=John |last2=Algeo |first2=Adele S. |date=July 30, 1993 |title=Fifty Years Among the New Words: A Dictionary of Neologisms 1941–1991 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-44971-7|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=3x-umCIwEYQC&pg=PA228 228]}}</ref>

A September 2010 article in ''[[The Standard (Hong Kong)|The Standard]]'' described the items on a typical Hong Kong resident's "yuppie wish list" based on a survey of 28- to 35-year-olds. About 58% wanted to own their own home, 40% wanted to [[Investing|professionally invest]], and 28% wanted to become a boss.<ref>{{Cite news |work=[[The Standard (Hong Kong)|The Standard]] |date=September 8, 2010 |url=http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=102699&sid=29504212&con_type=1 |title=Homes, cash top fairy tales on yuppie wish list |first=Natalie |last=Wong |access-date=September 26, 2010 |archive-date=June 29, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629185708/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=102699&sid=29504212&con_type=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> A September 2010 article in ''The New York Times'' defined as a hallmark of Russian "yuppie life" the adoption of [[yoga as exercise|yoga]] and other elements of [[Culture of India|Indian culture]] such as their [[Clothing in India|clothes]], [[Indian cuisine|food]], and furniture.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/world/europe/15iht-moscow.html |title=Russians Embrace Yoga, if They Have the Money |date=September 14, 2010 |work=The New York Times |first=Sophia |last=Kishkovsky |access-date=February 28, 2017 |archive-date=August 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814095335/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/world/europe/15iht-moscow.html |url-status=live }}</ref>