Snobbery. Is it.....

[Screaming Lord Byron]

[Donkeyboy75]

1. I take a pretty wide view of snobbery,

and think everyone suffers from it. There are food snobs, beer snobs, music snobs, culture snobs, fashion snobs...the list goes on and on.

[GoneOffShore]

4. Well, I'm fit all of those categories

life's too short to drink bad wine (or crap food or listen to rubbish music).

[MrSandman]

2. Of course, my standards in other...

areas are probably pretty apalling to others.

[WillyBrandt]

3. Snobbery is beneath me.

[KG]

5. i don't want to be a snob, but most peoples tastes are so

pedestrian...

[MaryBear]

6. usually related to ignorance, and

an attempt to create a social comfort zone for ones self. Even though I don't like snobbery, I have snobbish tendencies.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

7. That's a pretty good analysis.

I rather like that.

[Magrittes Pipe]

8. Well, what's your definition?

After all, one who thinks someone else is an ignoramus when that someone else is very clearly WRONG -- I certainly don't consider that snobbishness.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

9. Delusionary snobbery. There's a lot of that around.

[Magrittes Pipe]

13. Well, yes.

[Mari333]

10. Snobbery=Insecurity about one's self, imo. n/t

[jpgray]

11. I'm a snob snob--for example, you are nowhere near snobbery yourself

In all seriousness, every time I accumulate some amount of knowledge that I think would make me somehow superior to someone else in any way, I immediately get hit with some event proving me wrong with heavy irony. So while I expend an awful lot of energy into some of my interests and hobbies, I don't develop a snob-sense so much any more, if that means believing oneself superior to others. I do look down on things that don't meet my tastes however--just never people. :D

[dryan]

12. You mean like.....

openly criticizing a grammar mistake that someone makes on DU.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

14. its my middle name

:)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

16. But I though 'speaks' was your middle name?

:shrug:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

18. That's my married name

The is my confirmation name.

The s-n-o-b are silent. And invisible - but omnipresent

[T_i_B]

15. You mean...

...sloane rangers, hooray henries and the like?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. Well, that's social class-based snobbery.

The more prevalent North American breed is intellectual cultural snobbery. Of course, a lot of those North American snobs affect the culture and mannerisms of the English upper class. Not sure why they'd want to, but there you go.

[tigereye]

20. you don't think it's an attempt to put oneself

above the herd?

As more and more people are exposed to more choices in music, art, food, goods, there is more of an upscaling vibe that is in place. There was an interesting article in the New Yorker? recently. No it was People Magazine. ;)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

21. LOL.

[southpaw]

19. Something I try to avoid...

though I can't help but feel superior to those who choose to ignore obvious truths in favor of superstition. Those who strike me as willfully ignorant stir the meanest and ungliest sort of snobbery in my otherwise tolerant, all-inclusive soul.