Social Snobbery ( Archived) (446)

leigh2154: Makes sense...when you have always had something (money) how/why would it change you?....If you were born into a rich, arrogant family, chances are good you will be arrogant too....But when someone "builds" wealth there might be a greater chance for snobbery and arrogance...don't know cause I'm not rich....

EagleWoman: The wealthy (those born with silver spoon in mouth) crowd that I have known and know, to me appear far less narrow-minded, arrogant and judgemental (and snobbish) than those who "acquired their wealth later" (those with a chip on their shoulder) ... The latter appear more snobbish, arrogant AND judgemental because they still have something to prove ...

Or at least so I have observed ...

EagleWoman: "Wealth" is relative and so is whether someone is considered "rich" or not ...

To the ones who're starving and homeless, the ones who live in the shanty towns are "rich".

To the ones who live in the shanty towns, the ones who live in the high rise rise building and have a job and a car are "rich".

To the ones who live in the high rise buildings, the ones who live in their own house with a garden, a better job and a bigger car are "rich"

Etc. Etc. Etc!!!!!


All a question of who's looking from where ...

leigh2154: Makes sense...when you have always had something (money) how/why would it change you?....If you were born into a rich, arrogant family, chances are good you will be arrogant too....But when someone "builds" wealth there might be a greater chance for snobbery and arrogance...don't know cause I'm not rich....

In response to: Are you a Social Snob? Do you pick your friends and dates based on their levels of education, their occupation, the type of car they drive, the area they live in? Do you even know you do it?Does it matter to you what your friends do for a living and where they went to school? Do you find that your social groups, if you have them, tend to be with similar "types" of people? Would you prefer not to date someone who has no college degree because you dont feel you would have anything in common with them?

In these days of chronic recession, it is amazing how many of us are employed in positions of "lesser" social status that normal; many are forced to do what they have to to pay the bills, so it is increasingly difficult to guage who has the better education - the local mailman or the guy in City Hall.

Robert Green Ingersoll once said:

"“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”

How true.

Additionally credit card debt is out of control: and many sufferers of credit card debt are in that situation because of "trying to keep up with the Jonses'" - buying things that will give the impression of wealth and status, like nice clothes, a nice car outside, etc etc.

In a so-called "Classless Society", after listening to others, reading articles and forming my own opinions, it appears to me that snobbery still runs riot in the world, whether it be toward lesser-educated, lesser-financially well off or those who live on "The Wrong Side of the Tracks".

Any thoughts?

Bodecia: Thats reallly what I was saying, yes.

There are still some of the Silver Spoon Brigade who abound, and who are delightfully and blissfully aware of what on in the real world. They are cute and nicely amusing.

There are some, however, who have been so doctrinated all their lives that those who are less wealthy/less educated/less priviliged than themselves are lesser beings.

Those who have built themselves up from nothing can be extremely snobbish, yes. But I think it is partly because, having come from poor backgrounds some of them, they intensely dislike loafers, laziness and lack of ambition in others.

EagleWoman: You may be right in your last paragraph!!!

The funniest and most entertaining however are those who have married "into (established) money" I have spent many a hillarious moment listening and observing "their antics" ... They are the snobbiest, most arrogant, judgemental of them aLL!!! Most entertaining!!!

Bodecia: Some very wealthy Old Money folks I knew of in England were the opposite of arrogant. They were actually quite embarrased of their inherited wealth, did many charitable things to make up for it and kept a low profile.

So, as with all things, its wrong to generalize too much.

grizzwald: Some have built wealth in other ways than in money ....
How much of life did someone lose by being successful.....how much success was lost for living life?Many self made rich may look at people as lazy, ect. ....but that is not always true....they simply value other wealths over money is all....

Who is to say which is better.....I feel mine is ...as I am sure others think theirs is..