From this kind of perception, the obvious behavior of a snob includes attempting to befriend those of a higher rank, to be seen with them, or, if that fails, to imitate them in all the ways possible. Imitation takes numerous guises. Snobs usually find it is easiest to copy their superiors in taste, rather than in attainment. So, you can see them in costly designer boutiques (never shops), buying expensive pieces of clothing, furniture, other class-related items of material wealth. They may not be the ones that indicate well-developed taste, but they are certainly those recognized as high-priced or extravagant, therefore orbiting the owner of such items straight into the company of those above him. Other useful and even easier matter to take after, as snobs see it, is manner of speech. They are often recognized among other people as the ones using the longest words, but almost always using them incorrectly, or dispensing meaningless phrases all around.
From looking up at the socially higher, snob gets tired soon, and lowers his gaze to those lower in rank or wealth to him. He finds the situation most convenient for showing himself to be even more arrogant and annoying. At best, he tries to ignore ‘poor wretches’ beneath him, and this is the best he could do, to spare them his superiority. Nevertheless, most often, this is not the case, since snob needs to show his despise, his superior taste or attainment. His arrogance is then immensely wide, as he lavishes all his worldly goods and possessions in front of the bedazzled eyes of the fortuitous spectator. Snob’s only purpose, of course, is to show that he is in so many ways better, and that even a conversation he so magnanimously chooses to take up with those of lower class is only the proof of his superiority. Nothing in the appearance, manner of speech, behavior, or taste of those not so well-to-do can ever be good enough or even fairly acceptable, merely owing to the fact that they are not upper-class citizens.
To conclude with, those who forget real friendship and pursue mere wealth and those of higher status are snobs. How should we recognize them? If a snob comes for a visit, and, after assessing every piece of art or furniture in your house, stops at the picture that he evaluated to be relatively costly, but not owned by him, he will make a snub remark, such as ‘’What a lovely piece of water color you’ve got there.’’ He characterizes himself as an intellectual, and everybody else around him as simpletons.
