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Originally Posted by Rudel73
It's not 'cool' in America to be smart. The kids that study and get good grades get made fun of for being smart. Thats just fact. For some reason being 'dumb' and generally having nothing going for you is whats cool in our society.
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There was a feature on CBC Radio that covered this. It points out that in developing countries like India, the people cannot afford to act like this. In much of India, the really smart people are the cool ones, and in these people they place much of the hope.
Very much a contrast to, well, North America in general.