Was it due to height differences and the fact that a shorter guy compared to a taller guy may get intimiated and "looking down on someone" gives you power or something?
2007-12-04 07:58:00 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
The People with better food source, hence more nutrition, grew taller and therefore had opportunity to doubly look down on others.
Also the fact that richer people lived in the safety of high walled castles and could again ... look down on people.
2007-12-04 08:02:08 · answer #1 · answered by Ronatnyu 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A word which means 'to look down upon' is condescend
its etymology (origin) is from Middle English (in the sense [give way, defer] ): from Old French condescendre, from ecclesiastical Latin condescendere, from con- ‘together’ + descendere ‘descend.’
2007-12-04 16:02:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was probably from royal or noble people who were either seated above everyone else, being carried in a litter, therefore being higher than everyone else, or who were standing as other people bowed to them. It probably had nothing to do with height.
2007-12-04 16:03:57 · answer #3 · answered by Keerie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most definitely. Stereotypically, people still think this, however absently. It's ridiculous (even being someone who's tall, I can say that this is absurd; but that's the way life is.)
2007-12-04 16:03:44 · answer #4 · answered by Mike 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it meant that the person looked down his nose on the other person because he had his nose in the air, like a snob !!
2007-12-04 16:01:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it was my fault my son. It is not a matter of hieght but rather of gazing upon my people from afar. IT IS GOOD TO BE THE KING
2007-12-04 16:01:48 · answer #6 · answered by jerry g 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes and no
2007-12-05 09:53:19 · answer #7 · answered by ケチャッパー 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
German
2007-12-04 16:00:36 · answer #8 · answered by priceless500 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋