Word: snobbishness
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...transitions taking place in each country. Perhaps his evasion of this material is a blessing, for when he attempts to analyze American society, he inevitably stumbles. In his criticism of American vulgarity--which he seems to find epitomized in the phenomenon of ubiquitous pink bubble gum--he succumbs to snobbish cultural comparisons not unlike those indulged in by early twentieth century American Anglophiles. Such generalizing is absurd in a huge and diversified society...
James's intention was to reveal the hypocrisies of the snobbish upper classes. His little sketch of Daisy is the portrayal of everything they scorn; even more, it is an affront to the whole of Victorian society and its stiff, sexual repression. Daisy, said one Philadelphian publisher in rejecting the long story written in 1878, was "an outrage to American girlhood." Yet, Daisy is not an outrage: She is the one alive person in the story amidst a virtual morgue of grey propriety. She's also coquettish, a flirt of the worst sort, and a damnable tease. But throughout...
Vehicle of Expression. The Scots view the English as wanton spendthrifts locked into an immutably snobbish class system. By contrast, they emphasize their own rough candor and their belief in a radical kind of social justice. "The only class accent in Scotland," says Poet Sorley Maclean, "is the English...
Magazines ought to have some reason for their existence beyond their potential profitability. People just conceivably could be meant to provide entertainment. But if it ever does so, it will succeed by appealing to its readers worst instincts, their snobbish regressive ambitions to vicariously share in the tinsel elitism that Peoplecaptures with such fidelity...
...snobbish attention to one kind of music to the exclusion of all others is something peculiar to our own times," he says. "In the 16th century, Palestrina used street songs in his Masses. Mozart and Beethoven wrote both classical and 'pop' music, and Bartok used the folk music of Hungary to build impressive symphonic works. The snobbism works both ways," he adds. "There are Rolling Stones freaks who won't listen to anything else either...