"You're a snob. Everybody's a snob about something. The question is: What are you snobby about, and why? I'm a snob about fabric (don't put me near polyester or linen so "natural" it's like wearing a bag of wood chips) and I'm ridiculously finicky about paper (even some excellent books are printed on paper so miserably cheap and poorly constructed the pages practically dissolve under your fingertips)."
"Snobs are those who imagine that their sensibilities, tastes or responses in a specific arena are more discriminating, more informed, and more exacting than anyone else's. You can be an expert without being a snob, because you can possess understanding without exuding judgmentalism, but even worse is that many of us who are snobs are not experts at all: We simply have strong personal feelings that we have no hesitation in announcing."
"Snobbery crosses all boundaries: It doesn't matter what class you were born into or what status you hold in the world. My grandmother told me that, even in steerage on the boat to Ellis Island from Palermo, some people made a scene over the fact that not every family had their own tin cup. There are grammar snobs ("He was hanged", not "hung"), toothpick snobs,"
Snobbery represents a widespread inclination to regard one’s own sensibilities, tastes, or responses as more discriminating and exacting than others'. People can possess real expertise without becoming snobbish, yet many snobs lack expertise and rest on merely strong personal preferences. Snobbery appears across classes and cultures, emerging in trivial contexts as well as matters of craft, food, and material quality. Everyday examples include preferences about fabrics, paper, grammar, and cuisine, and such judgments can be exclusionary or melodramatic even in constrained circumstances like crowded immigrant steerage.
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