I met an English guy in a bar yesterday. Think of the pretentious English who think they are sophisticates because they have managed to settle in Spain and then multiply it by 20. He avoided my gaze like I was carrying bird flu and then spoke to the bar girls in the bar we were in in Vietnamese. I asked the bar girls if he spoke good Vietnamese, they told me he could count to 5, say hello and goodbye and other very simple phrases but that was it.
Apparently the Anericans can be just as bad, they think there should be special tourist bars and their own bars should be off limits. Sounds good to me. However, I should try and work out why this attitude annoys me.....it's certainly a form of insecurity on their part but why does it bug me? Surely I can just let them be pretentious, it doesn't really affect me unless I have some form of insecurity. I think I just hate snobs because intellectually it's a very stupid thing to be, fancy looking down your nose at someone because they aren't clever or sophisticated or blessed with some other aspect that you consider to be important. Even worse is to be arrogant bcause you consider yourself to be above average as most of the most obnoxious snobs seem to consider themselves.
Was that a rant?
