Have you ever encountered snobbery, class discrimination?

[Lieju]

Some humanists are rather snobbery towards mathematical natural sciences. And we fully return it. I mean, philosophy and psychology aren't real science, everyone knows that.


As a teenager I was working one summer on a farm, and was constantly bullied because my mom is a journalist (which is not real work) and apparently European Union was my fault.
They were constantly going on about how it must be tough for me to be around such lower class and how I wouldn't know what real work is like. Giving me the impression they had somewhat of an inferiority complex.

I'm Finnish, BTW.

 

[Danny Ocean]

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What country are you from?

OT: There was a guy on here who thought he was better than everyone else because he was a public schoolboy.

Honestly, if we get along, I couldn't give a fuck about where you live or what your parents do. Likewise, if you're a twat, you're a twat, and your background/home life don't change that.

I'm from the UK so not only do i encounter people who dislike the "lower class" but people who hate "new money". I hate how old attitudes of class continue to live among my "peers".

I'm from the south western region of england, yeah you would be surprised how much a persons class can affect ones attitude towards bascially everything. oh well at least there's always cake.

Me too. We're upper-middle, so we're hated by the upper class for being 'Neuveu Rich', and everyone else for having money.

I mean we obviously don't work hard if we have all this money, because that's how people make money: by not working!

Retards.

There's definitely far more hatred of the higher classes in this country than the lower ones. It's fine to call people posh for being rich but socially unacceptable to judge them for being poor.

 

[loc978]

Yes and no... I suppose I've been on both sides of this issue, in a few different ways. On the one hand, I'm from a family of Oregonian pioneer landowners, so there's a lot of acreage owned by my family (worth millions, nowadays) that my grandfather and great-grandfather pioneered. I've got a sort of trained dislike of people from other states migrating here and speeding up urban expansion, while not knowing how to handle our weather (especially on the road). In that way I'm a bit of a snob myself.
Aside from that, I grew up in a lower-class urban family (my mom moved to the city and married my dad against my grandfather's wishes... almost sounds like a movie, but it was much less dramatic than all that). I grew up wearing torn, patched hand-me-down clothing from thrift stores and such... which I was made fun of for, and that has given me a serious dislike of "fashion" in all of its various forms.
But as an adult... not so much. Every once in awhile I might get a little jeer for wearing a military issue coat, but that's usually from a high schooler who thinks that because I wear old, unfashionable things, I must be a homeless vet. A simple "fuck off, kid, you don't know what you're talking about" with a glare tends to send 'em running.

 

[Realitycrash]

Sure, every time there is a dresscode at a bar, I feel discriminated.

 

[Gigano]

Nope, never experienced it once, despite being lower middle class in a collage environment filled largely with upper middle/higher class students.

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Baronesse..

Such titles still carry any weight in Denmark in terms of how people view you?

 

[Ranma12569]

The only thing that i can even call close to that sorta thing is when someone i went to school with mentioned a club type thingy where most people in my class at school (bear in mind i was 12 at the time) went every thursday.

anyways they would always talk about it on friday so not knowing what it was i asked and was told what it was. When i asked if i could go along the next time it was on i was told "It's not really for your sort of people"

i'm unsure if he said that because I was foreign or if it was some sorta clique *shrug*

 

[iLikeHippos]

No one can call me out to be a simple joe as I bear the title of Count, so... I have never felt that demeaning feeling.

 

[ace_of_something]

In my line of work people more often feel that because I have a college degree that I'm 'an elitist' or that 'he think he's so great' ect.
Projecting their own fears about getting passed up for promotion on to me.
9 times out of 10 They assume I'm a kid from the suburbs who had everything handed to me because I make it a point to speak properly. (which by the way NOT all kids from the 'burbs' have it great) They also tend to assume anyone of 'higher' class is 'soft' or 'weak.'

My mother was an English teacher.
My father had two jobs, welder and rancher.
I was raised on a ranch.

We were actually quite poor. I worked very hard to get into school and was a straight A student so I could even afford college through scholarships.

When I worked undercover I had to actually work to have a slight ebonic/southern accent. Not because good speech instantly makes them think cop (it really doesn't) But it makes them think someone is stuck up or a sissy. Two things gang members don't like when vetting candidates.
My speech patterns, vocabulary, and cursing habits suffered greatly for a good year or two after working undercover.

 

[Lexodus]

Yes; financially, I'm considered upper class, and all people see is that rich guy who has what they want. It doesn't matter that we started out dirt poor, oh no. Just that we've done well (even though my dad now pays 50p for every single pound he earns to pay for these arrogant fuckers, and, no less, earned that money from providing a valuable service to the country) is enough to make them biased.

On top of this, since I've moved house thirteen times in my life, following my dad's jobs around the country, I don't have an accent other than one which can be described as 'English'. This means that I actually pronounce things correctly, which again is considered posh. Don't get me wrong, I don't speak like a stereotypical Victorian, but I do speak properly.

Hey, my accent must be similar to yours... I live in West Yorkshire but I dont sound anything like most of the other Yorkshire folk. I think thats where our similarities stop though, my dad wasnt rich although he did do a very important job in that he helped provide the nation with power and my grandfather was a soldier... of course doing such a high-stress, high-danger, low-pay job meant that my father died young and most certainly not rich and you couldnt really get rich as a soldier in my grandfathers time because... well, who wasnt a soldier right?

And even though I went to a school filled with mostly lower class people money still seemed to matter, I guess its because all of the "cool" people were middle class-ish and the only difference between most of us and the "cool" kids was what they had so I guess everyone was trying to be "cool" like them.

Although I guess my family and I fall into the "arrogant fuckers" category, I dont quite understand where being poor equals arrogance but I will have to take your word for it.

Arrogant fuckers =/= poor people. Arrogant fuckers = people, usually poor (or at least, poorer than me) who judge me based on what they see at exactly this moment in time, i.e a nice house and no debt.

 

[Lexodus]

I am from the lower economic class, but from the very high social class (I am from a noble/royal family, who lost all of their money), which is quite confusing to other people because they don't really know how to treat me... It's stupid...

Ex-nobility hi five! XD
Nah, really. My grandad on my mother's side was disowned by his family because his father was a pro-nazi duke and my grandad didn't want anything to do with it.

 

[DasUberCow]

Oh I had a terrible run in the other day that had "class discrimination" written all over it. I asked this shoeshiner why he and his ilk were so awfully dressed. I think he tried to tell me that he was dissatisfied with his station in life but he was so poorly educated that it was hard to understand what the stupid little orphan was saying.

Amongst his garbled words and horrid enunciation I heard him state that "you wouldn't know about hard times would you Sir?". Well, I was outraged. This moronic pleb had taken one look at me and thought he knew everything about me. He probably assumed that I'd lived an easy life but how would he know how hard it is to have to give up a pet because of economical circumstances? That week where we could only afford to keep 6 horses was so horrific. It's not like I can drive the Rolls or the Veyron on the fox hunt is it?

Despite being terribly upset I managed to even the score by having my chauffeur hold him down while a kicked him in the stomach a few dozen times. I felt justice was delivered when the local Bobby saw what was going on and arrested the urchin for getting blood on me. The rotten little snob ruined a £600 pair of Armani trousers!

First sarcastic post of the thread. A very good one also.

I've never had any problems about class to be honest. The only one thing i could say is middle eastern people in my area who are really bad at integrating with our society and look at us like we're stupid when we try and speak the local tongue to them. In such cases i get annoyed at these individuals and as a whole i have experienced these people to be arrogant and obnoxious. Not that i instantly prejudice individuals, but as a whole they annoy me. Is this snobbery? I'm not going to not get annoyed at these people just because it's not PC or whatever, if they want a place in society they should be judged on the same terms as everyone else. Is this racism?

I live in Oslo, Norway by the way.

 

[Wondermint13]

Hmm.. I moved to Sweden about a year and half ago now and the Summer last year I was at an education center asking for a little guidence applying for higher studies, and for some reason the Woman whos job it was to listen to my concerns quite simply was a *****!
I really felt like she was looking down her nose at me because I was struggling to keep up a language I just learnt and stuttered a bit while asking what options I had as somebody who recently moved to the country. Most awkward 20mins of my life and she did nothing to steady my nerves or even answer my question.
It cant be because she saw as some economy poaching immigrant surely..?

 

[Limie]

Lots of people at the university I go to seem to think that they can slag off the people who live nearby because the general area has some of the countries most deprived localities, even with me, someone who's lived there their whole life, is stood right next to them.

 

[NeuroticDogDad]

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First sarcastic post of the thread. A very good one also.

I try my best.

My grandma used to tell us that "it makes you look like a baby". She's just a really old fashioned and "proper" lady though. She's actually never worn pants. Ever.

wow, kinky.

 

[Zaik]

I'll leave this here.


Seriously though, around here, the upper class people have the sense to build walls around themselves to protect them from us poor people. We're apparently very scary ruffians and carry diseases or something.

 

[DrWilhelm]

Oh I had a terrible run in the other day that had "class discrimination" written all over it. I asked this shoeshiner why he and his ilk were so awfully dressed. I think he tried to tell me that he was dissatisfied with his station in life but he was so poorly educated that it was hard to understand what the stupid little orphan was saying.

Amongst his garbled words and horrid enunciation I heard him state that "you wouldn't know about hard times would you Sir?". Well, I was outraged. This moronic pleb had taken one look at me and thought he knew everything about me. He probably assumed that I'd lived an easy life but how would he know how hard it is to have to give up a pet because of economical circumstances? That week where we could only afford to keep 6 horses was so horrific. It's not like I can drive the Rolls or the Veyron on the fox hunt is it?

Despite being terribly upset I managed to even the score by having my chauffeur hold him down while a kicked him in the stomach a few dozen times. I felt justice was delivered when the local Bobby saw what was going on and arrested the urchin for getting blood on me. The rotten little snob ruined a £600 pair of Armani trousers!

Look Mr Cameron could you please get back to running the country. The poor aren't going to **** themselves you know.

 

[Nedoras]

I live near an upper class town and everytime I go there to get some ice cream from this awesome ice cream/candy shop, I always get weird looks or people avoid me. One time I heard a woman tell her kids not to look at me or get near me because I was one of "those people". I guess it's because I'm the only guy wearing jeans and a t-shirt instead of a suit.

 

[Vault101]

In australia we have the "haves" and the "have nots" but overall id say we are pretty much classless as opoased to britan where as I understand class was very ingrained

dont really know about other countrys

and Ive had my moments

walking along the street one day and there was a loud obnoxious obviously "lower class" woman on the street with a little kid in a pram and another freind, anyway shes was really loud and the kid was too then mother said in such a loud voice to shut the kid up

"ya know what a **** your making of yourself!?"

it was hilarious

 

[SturmDolch]

I know a couple of pretty stuck up people. They think they're the shit because their parents drive a BMW instead of a Toyota or GMC. Well you know what? We're both still middle class. Otherwise you'd be in a triple-A University, and you sure as hell wouldn't be living in the suburbs of Edmonton. Makes me laugh when girls think they're billionaires just because they wear all black clothes and five kilos of makeup every day.