Social Climber

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dari berbagai sumber
Social Climber
adalah orang-orang
yang menggunakan
segala cara, agar
dapat diterima oleh
orang-orang atau
lingkungan yang
memiliki status sosial
yang lebih tinggi.
…who knows…
 Social Climber

➢Social Climber ini adalah orang-orang yang

tidak peduli dengan tahapan proses untuk naik
ke status sosial yang lebih tinggi.
➢Bagi mereka, instant is the best!
➢Hal yang paling mencolok dari para social
climber tentu saja, lifestyle.
Reward orang sukses
➢Bagi orang-orang yang sukses, kemewahan dan
menjadi terkenal adalah reward dari segala
kerja keras yang telah mereka lakukan.
➢Sedangkan social climber? Kemewahan dan
terkenal adalah suatu kebutuhan dan
keharusan.
Contohnya
➢Sekarang sedang era-nya gadget seperti
smartphone atau PC tablet kan? Nah, meskipun
para social climber belum membutuhkan atau
belum mampu untuk membeli gadget-gadget
mahal, mereka pasti merasa gelisah dan pengen
cepat-cepat punya juga. Kenapa? Ya karena mereka
ingin dianggap keren, cool, dan menarik perhatian
lingkungan sekitarnya.
➢Beberapa waktu lalu, kita juga sering dengar ada
istilah 3B di kalangan cewek: Behel, Blackberry,
Bonding.
Percaya diri
➢Fasilitas berbanding lurus dengan rasa percaya
diri.
➢Nggak punya fasilitas bagus, minder…
➢Punya fasilitas bagus, langsung percaya diri.
➢Merasa pede bawa i-Phone, tapi malu bawa
Nexian ?

Selamat, anda punya bakat menjadi social

climber.
 Proses memperoleh hasil
➢Social climber cenderung menggunakan
segala cara untuk mencapai tujuan.
➢Mulai dari merengek-rengek atau
mengancam orang tua, manfaatin teman
sendiri, atau bahkan melakukan tindakan
kriminal.
➢Mereka tidak pernah menghargai arti proses,
kerja keras, dan bersyukur.
• Orang yang mendapatkan jabatan, fasilitas
atau kekayaan lewat kerja keras, cenderung
kalem dan rendah hati terhadap segala hal
yang ia punya.
Social Climber?
Mereka adalah
orang-orang yang
suka cari
perhatian
(attention seeker)
In another side ….
 Social Climber
Growing up in the 80s, I was all about those tongue-in-cheek
how-to books. My friends and I spent hours dog-earing the
pages of our Official Preppy Handbook, alternating
between astonishment and wonder. Just how many of these
tips could we realistically aspire to? Should we wear collars
up or down? How do we behave at the yacht club? What are
the best qualities in a preppy boyfriend?
Now there’s a new guidebook on the block. It’s just right for
our Get Famous on Reality TV world and it’s called The
Social Climber’s Bible: A Book of Manners, Practical Tips,
and Spiritual Advice for the Upwardly Mobile. Penned by
Johnson & Johnson heir Jazz and society crasher Dirk
Wittenborn, this book is seriously whacked — but in only
the best possible ways.
 #1 - How To Be A Social Climber
To help us achieve our dreams of social
importance, the experts shared Six Top Tips on
How to Be a Social Climber. Ready to climb? Here
they are:
1. Attend, weep and make up nostalgic personal
stories at memorial services for deceased
celebrities and statesmen.
2. Wear a tuxedo or ball gown in a way that
implies you’re on your way somewhere that’s
fancier, better and more socially promising.
 #2 - How To Be A Social Climber
3. Never ring the bell or knock when entering a
party or you’ll look like you aren’t sure you are
wanted.
4. Tweet from fabulous events you didn’t attend.
5. When introduced to strangers say ‘So nice to
see you again!’ to give the illusion that you
already know them.
6. Avoid claiming you are a Rockefeller because
you will be inundated with business proposals
and requests for loans.
 Everything You Need To Know About
Social Climbing
1. Why is there so much discomfort with social
climbing?
“Social climber” is an expression snobs invented to make
people with less of everything feel ashamed for wanting
more.
2. Are you criticizing social climbing or embracing it?
We wrote the book for people who love social climbers as
well as those who loathe them. Since social climbing is
Democracy in action, not to embrace it isn’t just
hypocritical, it’s un-American. Anyone who claims they’ve
never tried to improve their position in the world by
making friends with someone who can help them isn’t
being honest.
3. How did the two of you come to collaborate on a
book and why this topic?
Since one of us belongs to some of the most exclusive clubs
and the other has been kicked out of some of them, we
figured we were in a perfect position to look at social
climbing from both ends of the game. Plus, we’re related
and needed a good excuse to escape boring family
functions.
4. How long has social climbing been around and how
is it different today than ever before?
Social climbing played a key role in human evolution. If you
became new best friends with the caveman/cavewoman
with the sharpest teeth and lethal hunting skills, you had
a better chance of not becoming their next meal, and as
anyone who lives in New York knows, not much has
changed.
5. Why are we entering a Renaissance of social
climbing today?
In these economic hard times, social climbing, as a
networking, is a no-brainer. It’s the fastest, surest way
for you to get a job only you know you’re not qualified
for.
6. Is social climbing a uniquely American pastime?
Why?
Social climbing is an art practiced in all cultures, but only
America is founded on an individual’s God-given right
to climb the ladder. The Declaration of Independence
guarantees “the pursuit of happiness.” What better
expression to describe social climbing?
7. Is social climbing confined to the halls of society
power in New York’s Upper East Side, Hollywood,
Washington, and The Hamptons or is it a universal
instinct among all of us? Who doesn’t want to get
ahead?
Every town in America has someone who throws the best
parties and has the most social clout, even if they live in
a trailer.
8. Beyond the humor, is there a serious point to the
book?
Social climbing or “networking” is not only rampant but it
is a key ingredient to any success story.
9. Are you yourselves social climbers, targets of social
climbers, critics of social climbers, fans of social
climbers, or something in between or entirely
different? How so? In what ways do you encounter
social climbing in your lives?
We are proud to say that some of our best friends are social
climbers, but to point out the obvious, if we were really great
social climbers ourselves, we would be on a Russian billionaire’s
mega-yacht in the Maldives right now instead of doing
interviews like this one. Just as a sports writer doesn’t have to be
a great athlete to be a keen critic of the game, one doesn’t have
to be an accomplished social climber to understand and
appreciate the strategies, techniques and drive of the great
mountaineer.
10. Which celebrities have proven themselves to be
the savviest social climbers?
The greatest living social climbers are those who are
never suspected of being social climbers. To mention
them by name would impede their climb and
undoubtedly get us un-invited to their next party.
Without a doubt one of the most successful is Kate
Middleton. But judging mountaineers can be
confusing. For instance, When Taylor Swift was
dating Conor Kennedy, we have to wonder who is
mountaineering whom?
11. Was it sincere grief or social climbing that inspired so
many people during Fashion Week to regale stories and
post Facebook pictures of the good times they shared with
Joan Rivers? Does it matter?
It’s always safest to claim you are best friends with a celebrity
after he or she has passed away. They are no longer in a
position to say they didn’t like you, or worse, that they never
met you. For the record, we both met Joan Rivers and the
world will be a less amusing place without her in it.
12. What is Friend-Shui and how should we best practice it?
Friend Shui is the ancient Chinese art of harmonizing and re-
orienting your social life, i.e. clearing your address book of
friends and family who are social liabilities.
13. What is a Velcro-Climber?
These are tireless networkers who refuse to take hints to
get lost and are impossible to ditch. By relentlessly
inflicting their presence on people who are more
successful, famous and talented than themselves, at
the end of the night, it’s less exhausting for important
somebodies of the world to accept their friendship
with Velcro Climbers rather than run from them.
14. What are the most important three brief tips that
every social climber should know to climb their way
to the top of the social mountain?
➢ 1. Flattery will get you everywhere.
➢ 2. Never forget to kiss all four of your hosts’
cheeks.
➢ 3. Honesty is rarely the best policy.
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