means you have a taste for the high brow. It doesn’t mean you have to keep up with trends or even attend operas or whatever. It’s being capable of appreciating more intellectual things, instead of writing them off as stuffy or boring.

Once you develop that taste, you will seek out things that are more cultured, because the vulgar things will be a turn-off. High culture is like rich food; a little goes a long way. Whereas low culture, like junk food, is addictive with no value, so you consume a lot more.

I also think that kindness and compassion are important to avoid elitism & snobbery. A sense of humor is key as well, because then you can even enjoy elements of lower culture for what it is.

Being cultured doesn’t mean having money either, or being upper class. My family is working, lower middle class & all very cultured. I was raised to love art, music, literature & have manners that are out of consideration (not reflex). My mom says we have “champagne taste on a beer budget”, and no one ever realized we were poor as we were :D

Gib_I,

... and cant add anything more!