It is my conviction that in general women are more snobbish and class conscious than men and that these ignoble traits are a produ...ct of men's attitude toward women and women's passive acceptance of this attitude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Twenty-five or thirty years ago it was natural for a girl to look forward to marriage as embodying all that was of consequence in ...life. Not to have done so would have stamped the bold Philistine with the fatal brand of eccentricity; and had she perchance gone yet farther and dared to fling conventionality to the winds by earning her bread in a sphere of employment hitherto confined to the sterner sex, her genteel acquaintances would have passed by on the other side, not so much from a snobbish sense of superiority as from a deep-rooted conviction that the unfortunate woman in question had deliberately plunged into the very vortex of sin and humiliation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Americans living in Latin American countries are often more snobbish than the Latins themselves. The typical American has quite a ...bit of money by Latin American standards, and he rarely sees a countryman who doesn't. An American businessman who would think nothing of being seen in a sport shirt on the streets of his home town will be shocked and offended at a suggestion that he appear in Rio de Janeiro, for instance, in anything but a coat and tie.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »