Learn English – Word for who professes discrimination based on culture

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A person that professes discrimination based on race is a racist.

What is the word for defining a person that discriminates based on culture (pretty sure it is not culturist) or social habits?

E.g., Eric Cartman doesn't like hippies, he discriminates against them. But a hippie is not a race, an ethnic, a religion or a nationality. It is a life style not related to any of these.

Best Answer

Snob is probably the word you're looking for. A more precise, but less common word might be ethnocentrist. Other possibilities: elitist, jingoist.

Snob from Merriam-Webster: "one who tends to rebuff, avoid, or ignore those regarded as inferior"

Ethnocentrist, the adjectival or noun form of ethnocentrism from the ODO: "Evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture."

Elitist from the ODO: "A person who believes that a society or system should be led by an elite."

Jingoist from Merriam-Webster: "extreme chauvinis[t] or nationalis[t] marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy."