Well, elves and humans are a lot taller than kender! And elves just kind of hide away in the forests and don't really like visitors and keep to themselves and are kind of a little snobby if you ask me. But kender wander all over the place. Like Solace and Palanthas and Tarsis (which really isn't a beautiful seaport town anymore like I thought I was since the Catacalysm moved the ocean) and the Icewall. We get wanderlust when we're teenagers, and then we just travel around and see everything and learn all sorts of neat things about all sorts of places.
That's not to say that all elves are snobby. One of my very best friends in my dreams is Tanis Half-Elven, and he's not snobby at all. He's actually really nice. Kind of serious and broody, but really friendly. And my other good friend, Laurana, she's an elven princess and she's not snobby either! Her brother Gil kind of is though.