Partly Because I Am Middle Class
Jemima Lewis: “Snobbery didn't disappear after the 1960s: it just changed direction. The people whom society once revered - toffs, intellectuals, the respectable middle-classes - suddenly found themselves the objects of derision, while working-class culture was venerated above all else. ¶ Both varieties of snobbery - traditional or inverted - have their perils, but on balance, I prefer the former. This is partly because I am middle class and would prefer not to be mocked for it. But it is also because traditional snobbery at least aspires towards some worthy goals: education, ambition, courtesy.”
