QUOTE(cw68 @ Jun 2 2007, 11:06 AM)
Everyone knock off the personal insults, it's not kosher.
What's our definition on "snob"? Because I come from blue collar roots way back-- I would tend to see it as the Frasier Crane type (one of my fav. shows)
who look down on people for being less: less educated, less intelligent, less objective, less sophisticated, etc. BUT...are we thinking exclusiveness? I believe that all of us have a little bit of that in us-- the desire to be clubby and figure out who's "in" and who's "out" of a group that we've finally gotten "into". My friend left a mountain town in Arkansas because of this.
I hear another poster on the "crisis" part. In our old neighborhood everyone got together on the anniversary of the Loma Prieta quake. Apparently it trashed the electricity so that everyone had to cook what was in their freezers. They had this massive BBQ and liked it so much that they kept doing it every year on the anniversary. I think that after 911 all of us felt closer and as if we had something in common.
I wonder if you could have two people with about the same amount of propensity to be exclusive or cautious about relationships-- and if one is BUSIER because they're on the materialism or activity fast track...they could SEEM more exclusive/snobby whereas they're just more distant because they're not even THINKING about others in their rush??
Also...are we equating snobby with mean spirited?? Let's define and then we'll know which of us are truely the biggest snobs.