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Snobbery

Name(s):

Snobbishness

Inverted snobbery

Social class discrimination

Active prejudice towards lower classes

Nature

Snob is a pejorative term for a person who believes there is a correlation between social status (including physical appearance) and human worth. Snob also refers to a person who feels superiority over those from lower social classes, education levels, or other social areas. The word snobbery came into use for the first time in England during the 1820s.

Source: Wikipedia

Claim

Snobbery is one of the ways people reveal their own lack of self-esteem.

Counter-claim

1. Snobbery has the virtue of protecting a person of discernment from the base and vulgar. Certain hostesses owe their exceptional situation purely to their rigour. It is not because of their long name or wealth, but rather because they receive almost no one that it is such a privilege to be received by them.

2. If snobbery were a mortal sin, we would all burn in hell.

Broader

Class consciousness

Social discrimination

Narrower

Class discriminatory language

Class discrimination in education

Aggravates

Hypergamy

Exclusivity

Over-pricing

Name-dropping

Aggravated by

Discredited moneyed hereditary class

Strategy(ies)

Engaging in snobbery

Exposing snobbery

Reducing class discrimination

Value(s)

Type

(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems

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