Snobbery

Snobbishness
Inverted snobbery
Social class discrimination
Active prejudice towards lower classes

Claim

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

Counter-claim

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.

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