I AM SNOB…

I AM  SNOB…

“We must never confuse elegance with Snobber.”

Yves Saint Laurent.

Someone remembers the famous character of Hyacinth Bucket of the British comedy Keeping Up Appearances, is the eccentric and snobby social climber of middle class, insisted that his surname is pronounced as "Bouquet".

Keeping Up Appearances was a great success in the UK, and also captured large audiences in the US, Canada, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Belgium, and the Netherlands. By February 2016, it had been sold nearly 1,000 times to overseas broadcasters, making it BBC Worldwide's most exported television programme. Domestically, it placed 12th in the Britain's Best Sitcom poll of 2004. It has been syndicated on Gold and Drama in the UK; on PBS in the United States; and on 7TWO in Australia.

When was the last time you visited the Sistine Chapel? Have you observed the Temptation of Christ by Botticelli? I imagine you have some idea of the history behind one of the most important works of art, and Michelangelo? I have seen how you have taken pictures of museums, you must be a very educated and flowery person.

When you were in New York you should have gone through one of the most exclusive restaurants in the city, The Lion in Washington Square, no matter how much money you have, the important thing is to show off, maybe you went to the Alain Ducasse when you were visiting in London.

You can take a garment from the Christian Dior house, even if you have no idea if it's French or Italian ... and to be fashionable, do not forget to wear an accessory by Jennifer Meyer, but if you want to impress it is essential to wear on your wrist a famous Cartier watch, because that's what the trend demands.

Because they believe that in my social networks I share the publications of the most important newspapers in the world, The Economist, The Guardian, the Washington Post among others, if not to show how cosmopolitan I can become; or because they believe that I make some publications of the most select books of literature, but to boast of my intellectual wealth; Well, that's what this article is about: I'm also a Snob.

And why not confess it? If it is that we are in a snobbish society, because pretending and showing off will never go out of fashion, because it is always important to belong to a select social class, because attending to the very essence of human nature, we have to pay homage to the Ufanía, where everything is valid, even disguise and characterize what we are not and what is worse will never be.

I am snobber just like you, who boasts his academic degrees, who presumes his nobility, his surnames, I am a snobber equal to the one who boasts of his travels, his clothes, his body; is the pure narcissism of a society where arrogance is part of the Glamor and etiquette, where you must ride in the cloud of the unattainable, because that if we must admit it, we are the best, we are special, we are unique and people should worship us .

  According to the Oxford dictionary, SNOB is A person with an exaggerated respect for high social position or wealth who seeks to associate with social superiors and looks down on those regarded as socially inferior.

Late 18th century (originally dialect in the sense ‘cobbler’): of unknown origin; early senses conveyed a notion of ‘lower status or rank’, later denoting a person seeking to imitate those of superior social standing or wealth. Folk etymology connects the word with Latin sine nobilitate ‘without nobility’ but the first recorded sense has no connection with this.

Snob is a pejorative term for a person that believes there is a correlation between social status and human worth.[1] Snob also refers to a person that 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.

Snobs can through time be found ingratiating themselves with a range of prominent groups – soldiers (Sparta, 400 BC), bishops (Rome, 1500), poets (Weimar, 1815), farmers (China, 1967) – for the primary interests of snobs is distinction, and as its definition changes, so, naturally and immediately, will the objects of the snob's admiration.

Snobbery existed also in mediaeval feudal aristocratic Europe, when the clothing, manners, language and tastes of every class were strictly codified by customs or law.[citation needed] Chaucer, a poet moving in the court circles, noted the provincial French spoken by the Prioress among the Canterbury pilgrims:

And French she spoke full fair and fetisly

After the school of Stratford atte Bowe,

For French of Paris was to her unknowe.

The term "snob" is often misused when describing a "gold-tap owner", i.e. a person who insists on displaying (sometimes non-existent) wealth through conspicuous consumption of luxury goods such as clothes, jewelry, cars etc. Displaying awards or talents in a rude manner, boasting, is a form of snobbery.

William Rothwell notes "the simplistic contrast between the 'pure' French of Paris and her 'defective' French of Stratford atte Bowe that would invite disparagement".

Snobbery surfaced more strongly as the structure of the society changed, and the bourgeoisie had the possibility to imitate aristocracy.[citation needed] Snobbery appears when elements of culture are perceived as belonging to an aristocracy or elite, and some people (the snobs) feel that the mere adoption of the fashion and tastes of the elite or aristocracy is sufficient to include someone in the elites, upper classes or aristocracy.

However, a form of snobbery can be adopted by someone not a part of that group; a pseudo-intellectual, a celebrity worshipper, and a poor person idolizing money and the rich are types of snobs who do not base their snobbery on their personal attributes.[citation needed]Such a snob idolizes and imitates, if possible, the manners, worldview, and lifestyle of a classification of people to which they aspire, but do not belong, and to which they may never belong (wealthy, famous, intellectual, beautiful, etc.).

The vulgar will never be fashionable, the exquisite if, the most advisable thing then for a snobista is that he goes assiduously to Crepes and waffles, so he has no idea what crepes mean? Or at least they are waffles, which is the minimum that a class person knows.

Facebook, Instragran and Twitter are the great scenarios for Snobismo, to show off, to be what we are not, it does not matter if you live on the slopes of a subnormal neighborhood of the city, since you can go to KFC once a year and mount photos on the internet eating combos with names that you can not pronounce, you have passed the test, you are ours.

Well this is the snobbery of a society, highly egocentric and arrogant and I want to finish this short article, thanking Pierre Daninos with his book "Snobismo or the desire to seem", I was pleasantly inspired.

"There are books that everybody talks about and nobody reads, and there are books read all over the world and nobody talks about" Hermodoro's.

Written By :

Omar colmenares Trujillo