What's the word for?

Question

people who thinks their are popular and they stick in their own social circles and made it clear that they do not want to befriend anyone of a different social status?

Answer 1

i think that would be a SNOB.

Answer 2

Snob
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A snob, guilty of snobbery, is a person that adopts the world-view that other people are inherently inferior for any one of a variety of reasons including supposed intellect, wealth, education, ancestry, etc. A snob imitates the manners, adopts the world-view and affects the lifestyle of a social class of people to which he or she either belongs or aspires. That "right" is not necessarily a birth-right: a Pseudo-intellectual is a type of snob.

A snob is perceived by those being imitated as an "arriviste", perhaps nouveau riche or parvenu, and the elite group closes ranks to exclude such outsiders, often by developing elaborate social codes, symbolic status and recognizable marks of language. The snobs in response refine their behavior model (Norbert Elias 1983).

Answer 3

Snob

Answer 4

Snob

Answer 5

Snob

Answer 6

Snob. Uppity.

Answer 7

Democrats.

Answer 8

Many people collect in groups that last over time. Usually these groups are for related interests or shared experiences, and often for a shared purpose. Examples might be a photography club at school, a union at work, a football team at school or the Saturday morning variety. The main things characterizing such groups is that a person often belongs to several and none of them has a hugely greater call on his interest or loyalty than the others.

Inside groups such as these, indeed, inside any grouping of people you often find smaller, tighter groups that have an added level of connection: the people genuinely like each other or fit for a less healthy but related reason (forms of personal attachment such as I might want "worshipers" who always affirm my greatness and they might want a leader they can submit to and feel protected by and a part of as well as feeling some of my glory/brilliance/toughness/whatever spills over to them). These groups can be called cliques though they usually aren't until you slide along the spectrum from healthy person groups toward the unhealthy ones because "clique" carries a not-so-nice connotation today. (Other examples of connotative badness include discrimination and prejudice. Properly speaking, they are very general words. For instance, you discriminate between the apples and bananas at the grocery store: each has its advantages and disadvantages, not least of which are taste and price. You make your decision based not just on those concerns though. You also factor in a prejudice that you like one more than the other. Very broad, but over the last few decades, they have become much more restrictive and unpleasant.)

Groupings like that, cliques, move on depending on the inner goodness (perhaps pretty well repressed!) of the people involved. Get a clique with really unpleasant people who also happen to enjoy a bit of popularity at present and they could quickly morph into the kind of monstrosity you describe above. People around them are not immune and they morph as well. Some might even have a feeling of alienation from those around them amplified by interacting with such cliques and be moved to act upon their feelings. Organized, like at Columbine, or over years on a personal level by raping women, stealing from an employer just to do it, casually harming a neighbor, withholding love from children, the list is endless.

Groups who reach that point though, the "We are gods and you can never even aspire to be like us or one of us" are snobs. I might point out these folk might be a group not from a school, say, but perhaps kids of rich folk who socialize or elite athletes or rather successful businesspeople. Though the ones who have done nothing in life other than be born pretty or to rich parents are the most obnoxious to be around, the nastiest ones can often be those who have accomplished something like athletes or businesspeople and feel not just a right to sneer at the rest of us, but to have earned that right.

All that said though, for folks short of reaching the point the question describes one should encourage cross-group interactions. In high school, well, 9th-11th grade, every one of my friends but for one pair hated every other one of my friends. That never actually changed, but I am the richer today for having such varied and interesting friends.

Sadly though, get used to it. You will see and be looked down upon by folks such as these for your whole life. Or you can do the looking down if you are part of such a group. But we will gradually breed it out of society and handle the mental needs being satisfied this way in better ways. How gradually? Not sure...

Answer 9

although all of the above are correct - I prefer the word HONESTY! so what if they are snobbish, snooty etc etc. we all have the right to CHOOSE who we want to socialise with. it does not necessarily mean that YOU (not you personally, just generalising here) are not good enough for them, but maybe just the fact that you'll have little or nothing in common with them. so let birds of feather flock together. that's just how it is.

Answer 10

Whiteligh; Is this not a Filipino-based, board?
What is wrong with, "Sablada"! -eh?

(Since mt first visit to Makati -in 1980..
I learnt that word. Somebody was describing the
haute'/haughty attitude of a clique' of ultra-snobbishly-
condescending, older group of girls: mestizoas, ALL -of rather wealthy,
-but broken families, (who happened to live in two-story-houses..
-one 0F-which I visited absolutely stunned me: it was a Spanish palace!)

I took the word, 'on-board' immediately -as English [simply fails]..
-to describe the ATTITUDE, of which, I speak.

A certain group of Year 12 "upper-crust", Saint Scholasticans..
way-back
in about,
'80/'81; and all these 'sabladas' (who made a concious effort to BE 'sablada')..
-as it happened were hoping- in the following year, (in their still intact-clique')
.. to attend a certain, Cory del Rosa Finishing-School-for-young-ladies.
A sure mark.. -so one OF these girls, explained to a girlfriend of mine was-
"the New York Walk": (a really FAST 'gait' -done in 4,-5" high heels..
closed, business-woman's footware: THE trade-mark.. -and black, (of course):
altogether -once perfected: very attractive, -but, (also).. quite 'non-Filipino!
They were, really, 'Hell-Bent' on emminating
the "Super-Successfull" Amerikana (!)

To myself, at about 30 years-of-age, they were TOO.. "City"..
altogether
-for ANY Aussie -(outside, say the Stock-broker, 'circle)
-with sumptuous offices in Pitt Street, Sydney: -not, really 'at one' with
the "olde-money", set, of Rose Bay -IN Sydney;
nor the aggressive-business style [that is] slightly shunned -in Toorak,
-Melbourne: THE Centre, OF 'Old-Money' in Australia..

More -as its name implies, an East-Coast, American bizzy-style
-from the "power-Dressing", era -(but one that stealthily returned
-once the "Grunge"-style vannished, in '96) and grew, again steadily..
with the mid-to-late '90's, growing, I.T. stock-boom..

All in-tune with the well-heeled, well-practiced, 'thirties-something'

'Soblada' business woman: the type that -during those heady late-nineties,
thought she'd -almost- 'had-it-made'; (but then ran into the proverbial
'glass-ceiling': a Stratospheric, super-salarried, "MEN''-Only, Club !!)

A "no-nonsense, walk-up"-style that was, startling/surprising -to those
they perceived, -back in Manila, as "low-flying birds":
(THAT was the thinking, I am convinced, of this particular 'Class-of-1980).!

Answer 11

There is one word that comes to mind: snob (noun),
Some adjectives that contain the sense you indicated: cliquish, elitist or elitistic, conceited,