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Why humbling people is arrogant

The Ordinary Man
3 min readMar 29, 2023

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There’s this thing in Briton where people disguise tearing people down as humbling them, you see it in the media all the time. They see someone who’s slim, intelligent, good-looking, and ambitious with an enthusiasm for life and they don’t like it one bit.

They can’t compete with them and they’re jealous so they do the easiest thing possible — tear them down. Calling it “humbling” is a way to justify their poor behaviour whilst making the other person look bad.

Who made you judge?

People in the UK normally chalk anything they don’t like about a person up to them being stuck up. Even if they’ve never had an interaction with them they may accuse them of being this way because they’re jealous of the way they look.

But the thing is, who made them the judge of who is humble and who is not? Why would a person take it upon themselves to be the one to bring others back down to Earth?

That to me screams of a person that thinks a lot of themselves, they’ve elected themselves judge and jury. Is there an official hierarchy and rule book as to what is humble and what isn’t?

The narrow-minded definition of stuck up

People over here have a very old-fashioned narrow-minded view of what being stuck up is. Normally…

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