Risky Business: Are Rhodes Students Snobs or They Are Influenced By The Gtown Environment??

Risky Business: Are Rhodes Students Snobs or They Are Influenced By The Gtown Environment??
You say that you haven’t become a snob yet you insist on using words that you then have to explain in brackets. Is this you presuming that your readers are dim-witted and won’t know what the word means or are you just trying use complex vocabulary because hey, you can. However, on the other side of the coin I believe that your Rhodes experience is what you make of it. I think that it’s a personal choice to become a snob-yet what exactly constitutes a snob? Is it knowing and caring about the problems that affect us today, is it the way we speak, is it that our world view may have changed? What ever it is I don’t think that these things make someone a snob. You become a snob when you regard yourself as superior to others simply because you may understand certain concepts or see things differently. I think that’s its always important to remember that we are in the top 2% of the world (by being at university) and a lot of other people don’t get this amazing opportunity. It’s up us to begin to fix the problems which we have created for ourselves and if this means using our ‘snobbish’ knowledge then so be it.