cultural snobbery
Taste-based social disdain
Cultural snobbery is the attitude that certain tastes, interests, or cultural preferences mark someone as superior or inferior.
A cultural snob might dismiss popular entertainment as beneath them or judge people for not knowing classical music or foreign films: There's a certain cultural snobbery in dismissing anything that sells well.
The term is almost always pejorative, implying pretension rather than genuine discernment.
- elitistOne favoring the privileged
- pretentiousFalsely grand or important
- highbrowIntellectually or artistically sophisticated
- snootyAffectedly superior in manner
- condescendingSuperior and dismissive manner
looking down on · uppity · refined · bourgeois · sophistication · acquired taste · disdain · taste · guilty pleasure · arrogant · intellectual · coffee table book · exclusive · contempt · dismissive · superior · posh · ivory tower
- ego displaysarrogance, vanity, boasting, showboating, braggadocio
- snobberysnooty, elitism, snoot, snootiness, haughtiness
- condescensionpatronizing, belittling, talking down, talk down, superiority
- pretentiousnesspretentious, pretentiousness, pretension, pompous, pomposity
cultural snobberyopen-mindedness
Acceptance of differing viewpoints
inclusivity · broad-mindedness · anti-elitism · cultural relativism
cultural snobberyhumility
Freedom from arrogance
intellectual humility · unpretentiousness · philistinism · live and let live · anti-intellectualism
cultural, culture, cultures, cultured, culturing, culturally, multicultural, intercultural, acculturate