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I also forgot to add that American culture is to blame. It's really depressing for me because I see it affecting my own family; my brother (who I'll call Mike) is just starting High School, but grades are irrelevant to him because he wants to be an NBA superstar. Before this, he wanted to be a marine biologist - but after learning of the course of study one must take to become a marine biologist, he decided it was too hard - bull-shit I say. No matter how much I try to reason with him, no matter the statistics, he refuses to have to learn anything, because the popular "urban" culture frowns on it. I think it's disgraceful, and it's playing a definite role in the general dumbing-down of America.
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