I'm not sure I get it, but looking down on each other is a time honored hobby.
This cousin of mine in Puerto Rico who's my age, he would ignore me if he saw me, not even a hello. Okay, he doesn't like me for whatever reason. But then I saw him do it to another cousin right next to me who was younger than both of us. So I asked him what's up with that, and he said it's probably because he thinks he's a big shot because he's a manager at Kmart. Kmart. A manager at Kmart, so therefore he's too good to say hello to us.
If we met a woman here on the mainland and they asked what our job is and we said manager at Kmart, how hard would it be for her not to laugh in our face? Nothing wrong with working at Kmart or being a manager there, but it's not exactly like being a Saudi Prince who thinks they're too above the regular citizenry to look at them directly.