Is inverse snobbery a genuine phenomenon?
Off the top of my head, the example I can think of is when people refer to the 'gentrification' of areas, which lose their 'edginess'. When using these terms people seem to assume that working class or lower class people are inherently more interesting.
I've heard middle class people constantly referred to as boring in a way that would be called bigotry or snobbery if it was applied to working class people. Is inverse snobbery common and does it have any rational basis? Are middle class people more boring? If so, why? It's the only generalisation about a demographic that is not deemed snobbery or bigotry as far as I can tell....
I've heard middle class people constantly referred to as boring in a way that would be called bigotry or snobbery if it was applied to working class people. Is inverse snobbery common and does it have any rational basis? Are middle class people more boring? If so, why? It's the only generalisation about a demographic that is not deemed snobbery or bigotry as far as I can tell....
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Novelty is the ultimate fetish, someone from a middle or upper class background with no experience of working class environments or people "slumming it" to experience something "authentic" is a thing
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by StormgradNovelty is the ultimate fetish, someone from a middle or upper class background with no experience of working class environments or people "slumming it" to experience something "authentic" is a thing
Ok but why are middle class people slated as lacking kudos and boring as though being lower or working class immediately makes you cooler, more authentic etc? If that came from any other class it would be seen as quite self regarding but working class people can say it and be taken seriously....unless I'm mistaken and it's another class that says that
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