View Poll Results: Do you consider yourself a snob?
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Are you a snob?
01-05-2008 | 06:56 PM
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From: Dry Branch
Originally Posted by RTZX9R,Jan 5 2008, 09:50 PM
BMW, Mercedes, Jag, Snaab, POrsche, Audi, etc are snob cars.
You cannot be a snob in a honda.
You cannot be a snob in a honda.
One can be a snob without even having a car. It's not the car or other possessions that make one a snob. Being a snob is purely a state of mind, and there are plenty of guys driving Mustangs (as one example) that are more snobbish than some of the people who drive Mercedes or Jaguar cars. It's not what you own, but how you feel about it, that makes one a snob. 
01-05-2008 | 08:03 PM
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Looks like there are two definitions in that quote.
True snobs and poseurs.
TRUE SNOB
POSEUR
HOW TRUE SNOBS SEE POSEURS
For example: Cristal and Louis Vitton bags
True snobs and poseurs.
TRUE SNOB
Originally Posted by #1
A snob, guilty of snobbery, is a person who adopts the worldview that some people are inherently inferior to him for any one of a variety of reasons including real or supposed intellect, wealth, education, ancestry, etc.[citation needed] Often, the form of snobbery reflects the offending individual's socio-economic background. For example, a common snobbery of the affluent is the affectation that wealth is either the cause or result of superiority, or both as in the case of privileged children.
Originally Posted by #2
However, a form of snobbery can be adopted by someone not a part of that group; Pseudo-intellectual is a type of snob. Such a snob imitates the manners, adopts the world-view and affects the lifestyle of a social class of people to which he or she aspires, but does not yet belong, and to which he or she may never belong.
Originally Posted by #3
A snob is perceived by those being imitated as an "arriviste", perhaps nouveau riche or parvenu, and the elite group closes ranks to exclude such outsiders, often by developing elaborate social codes, symbolic status and recognizable marks of language. The snobs in response refine their behavior model (Norbert Elias 1983).
01-05-2008 | 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted by CKit,Jan 6 2008, 12:10 AM
What about a Honda NSX?
What about a Nissan GT-R?
What about a Nissan GT-R?
On the Nissan GT-R...most of the 350Z folks I've met and tried to start a conversation with were not very friendly and many of 'em are not really true enthusiasts (Auto Tranny...c'mon). At any rate, the GT-R will be different...I'd surely view 'em as snobs 'cause I'm not a Nissan fan and the GT-R owners will probably have a sense of "I'm better than you" anyway...
Of course...me thinking that way...kinda makes me a snob. No?
01-05-2008 | 11:11 PM
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i had a great civic.... i had a cool n360 too,
no i don't think so... a snob is one not willing to see another, but view's another as someone he / she must be better then... overall i've met more willing to see.. or meet on a common ground then not... maybe it depends on weither i am willing to see them...
no i don't think so... a snob is one not willing to see another, but view's another as someone he / she must be better then... overall i've met more willing to see.. or meet on a common ground then not... maybe it depends on weither i am willing to see them...
01-06-2008 | 12:57 AM
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I don't mean to suggest that someone who possesses an expensive item is a snob. I am just expressing that a prerequisite for snobbery of the affluent (ie. worldly possessions, or car, as in our discussion point) is owning something of affluence.
A Honda S2000 in no way indicates affluence, therefore does not qualify a person to be a snob (even if they wanted to be one).
A poseur? Most definitely.
Again, I am also not implying that an s2k owner is a poseur. Just that he can qualify to be one, if that is the path he chooses.
The survey would be more in touch with reality if the question being asked was "Are you a poseur" rather than snob. Owning an S does not give you the cojones to be a snob...you better have more to bring to the table.
My Honda minivan cost $5,500 more than my S (both brand new). How in the world can anyone be snobby over something that is cheaper than a minivan?
Word.
A Honda S2000 in no way indicates affluence, therefore does not qualify a person to be a snob (even if they wanted to be one).
A poseur? Most definitely.
Again, I am also not implying that an s2k owner is a poseur. Just that he can qualify to be one, if that is the path he chooses.
The survey would be more in touch with reality if the question being asked was "Are you a poseur" rather than snob. Owning an S does not give you the cojones to be a snob...you better have more to bring to the table.
My Honda minivan cost $5,500 more than my S (both brand new). How in the world can anyone be snobby over something that is cheaper than a minivan?
Word.
