Snobbery

Botton argues that people are judged and pushed into small categories simply because of one aspect about someone's life. When some one asks you if you are a cat person or dog person they assign you into one group that can make you become the "crazy cat lady" simply because you like cats. Personally, I know I have judged people based of one category of their life. In the competitive gymnastics world cheer leading is seen as inferior to gymnastics. If someone told me they were a cheer leader I use to instantly assume I was better and I would write them out of my life. After quiting gymnastics and becoming a cheerleader I learned I was right and wrong about my previous assumption. Cheer was no where near as hard as gymnastics but it did have it's own type of difficulty. I had to learn all these new stunts and jumps and how to focus on the team not the individual, things I never learned in gymnastics. In order to prevent snobbery we need to step outside of our lives and see the world from another person's point of view. If even just a few people could learn to step out of their comfort zones I think our everyday lives would dramatically change for the better.