  I knew one Sephardic Jew who looked down on Sephardic culture, and admired European culture, like Shakespear and Goethe.   I don't consider that in itself necessarilly bad - I'm mostly into English culture myself. I mean from a view of who they are, not what their interests are. Like, for example, I won't look down on someone if they're black, but will if they start shouting and dancing around naked. No one wants to see that. Ever.