Reader question: In this headline – ABC News: One-upmanship on Senate Floor – What does one-upmanship mean here? Give more examples?
My comments: Senators are trying to win an argument against an opponent, a fellow Senator.
Here as well as anywhere, one-upmanship means essentially that I'm better than you are. Think of a competition, a game, a match. When one player goes "one up", he scores one more point than another player, or in other words he leads the opponent by one point.
In society at large and by general definition, one-upmanship is the game played in which participants, by skills fair or foul, try to make one seem better – sound better, looker smarter, feels superior. To look at it the other way around, it's a game to make others look inferior.
Examples abound. You don't have to search high up and low down for an example of one-upmanship. In fact, I can spend the next day giving one-upmanship examples. I won't do it of course – for it'll probably lead to a competitive reader remarking – "I can give one-upmanship examples nonstop for a week".
And I'd believe him. This said and point taken, still there are examples I feel like giving. Ruminate and see if you haven't come across or as a matter of fact engaged in similar conversations to the following:
A: I was born in Xinjiang.
B: I am from Beijing, the capital of the country. Xinjiang is the countryside.
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