[OT] Nerds
 

I stumbled across an interesting essay, discussing the culture of the American high school, and specifically the (mis)treatment of the group known as 'nerds'. The essay posits a cause to this, and extends this to certain other social Groups. I thought maybe some on this forum would be interested.

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Re: [OT] Nerds
 

Why would anyone in a sci-fi 4X game forum be interested in an essay about nerds? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Re: [OT] Nerds
 

Disregard my prior post. I just read this article, and it hits the nail on the head re: the problems with American public schools. This guy has obviously put his philosophical and sociological training to good use.

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you know, as i was reading that, i realized that both Canada and the US have no national purpose as far as i can tell.

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I really dug that article.

Thanks.

[ January 05, 2004, 20:09: Message edited by: Loser ]

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Very good article.

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Interesting. Thanks for the link.

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i've read the article before, and i tell you, its true. i experienced (and still relatively am) what is described there, and lived thru it. call me a nerd, i no longer care, for im happy the way i am ^_^ and i realized that unpopularity originates in thoughts of unpopularity. wont go into details.

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most of his stuff is total unadulterated crap, with the singular purpose of eliciting emotional response without any kind of solid premise or point, but Jon Katz ran a good serise of articles on Slashdot shortly after the Columbine shootings. Basically a collection of letters from students about problems and persecution they faced in school.

http://features.slashdot.org/article...thread&tid=146

It turned into a ten part series, the first of which is linked above. I think they were all together in some easy to browse format somewhere, but all I can find now are the original slash articles.

http://features.slashdot.org/article...thread&tid=146

http://features.slashdot.org/article...thread&tid=146

http://features.slashdot.org/article...thread&tid=146

http://features.slashdot.org/article...thread&tid=146

http://features.slashdot.org/article...thread&tid=146

http://features.slashdot.org/article...thread&tid=146

http://features.slashdot.org/article...thread&tid=146

http://features.slashdot.org/article...thread&tid=146

http://features.slashdot.org/article...thread&tid=146

Re: [OT] Nerds
 

Don't know about unadulterated crap Puke. I agree some of the 20/20 rear view vision stuff sounded false, but overall the premise strikes me as true.

I was a nerd 30 plus years back and it still seems to describe me and my friends.

Liked the slashdot articles as well. Useful Posts.