Except Americans despise snobbery or snobbish attitudes of any kind, its almost ...

ripb · on Feb 26, 2015

>Except Americans despise snobbery or snobbish attitudes of any kind, its almost taboo, while the Brits embrace it.

Ah, making sweeping generalisations of one demographic containing about 80m people and another of 330m people. Bound to be a good tactic.

walshemj · on Feb 26, 2015

From what I hear of the DAR and the WASP establishment that's not true its still major deal the Jeb Bush is a catholic.

barry-cotter · on Feb 27, 2015

It's not 1950. The WASPs lost their lock on the establishment around the time my father was born. The Ivy League graduate Liberal intelligentsia have been the establishment for 40 years on the outside.

Jeb's Catholicism is not a big deal for his electability or this would not be the first time I'd heard of it. By this time Mitt Romney's run I'd read multiple discussions on his Mormonism.

TheMissingPiece · on Feb 26, 2015

Not really... just depends on what group you're around.

rhino369 · on Feb 26, 2015

America has a love/hate relationship with snobbism and elitism.

I think very roughly, Americans are fine with economic classes, but not with social classes. Probably because even our rich are mostly new money outside of Manhattan elite.

We love us some Warren Buffet, but hate fatcat, bluebooded new york bankers.

It probably explains why reality TV is obsessed with following around Rich people doing mundane things.

pound · on Feb 26, 2015

said who?

also SV start-up ecosystem is full of snobbery, just slightly different context/values