What behaviour makes a person snobbish?
I think snobbishness is in the eye of the beholder. I grew up in a small village in the English Lake District, my father was the vicar, we lived in a big house and I went to an independent school until I was 12, when my father could no longer pay the fees. I had almost no friends in the village. It was assumed that I thought I was somehow ‘better.’ This must have been handed down from parents to their children. ‘Don’t play with her, you might get ideas above your station.’ I’m not an introvert and I can still do snobbish if I have to. I don’t take sugar with my tea, so I don’t make a noise when stirring it. I don’t raise my little finger when lifting my teacup. Now, if, when I make a comment about some humanitarian catastrophe and a complete stranger says, ‘You’re not as stupid as I thought you were,’ then there is a good chance I will shoot him down in flames, bring all my superior knowledge into play and possibly end up sounding very, very snobbish (belittling), but then: All’s fair
