Only Whites are Nerds? Are You Nuts?

Apparently, someone wasn't satisfied with acting like "ghetto culture" or "hip-hop culture" or "gangsta culture"---or whatever the frick they're calling thugs who traffic drugs, sex and pathetic excuses and the rappers and fans who support them-- is a good thing, so someone had to go for a good target to describe as "hyper-white." What's about the furthest you can get from idiots who try to pickle their brains, treat women as objects, called doing decent in school and not breaking laws "acting white"? Perhaps a group that generally only does caffeine, are generally highly respectful to and even a bit intimidated by women, are renowned for their brains and lack of fighting? That's right, "nerds." Never mind that we don't call ourselves nerds anymore-- I am a geek, and I associate with geeks. We generally agree that a nerd is a geek without social skills. Unfortunately, it seems that the author of the paper did her research by watching bad movies from the 80s. The idiot even thinks that geeks won't become friends with folks because of skin color. What, the two black guys, five Filipinos, two "some kind of Asian" and three Mexican guys in my geek group can't call themselves that? (All descriptions are self-applied, so feel free to go call those dozen geeks racist against themselves. Oh, and the three guys' families *were from Mexico*. Every blessed one is or was American first, but that is probably because we were all in the Navy.) Now, in the author's defense, it's possible that the groups she was looking at were big-city schools, and it's possible that she was observing social pressures besides geekdom at work. I know I've heard of black kids in big schools being beat up for, well, acting like Urkel. Given the huge obsession with race even at my nice little high school-- generally on the part of the teachers-- I can easily see groups that are large enough that not everyone knows everyone else getting broken down into mostly race and language based groups. I think it's stupid, but that's an entirely different post. The point is, I don't thing this lady did very good research. For the love of all, she thinks we use POCKET PROTECTORS. Please. PDAs all the way. So, this is my response from within the "culture" she's talking about. Thanks to Junk Yard Blog for bringing this up.