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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by filtherton
No, but I see how you could get that impression. It doesn't have anything necessarily to do with the president, though the situation isn't really helped when our president can't be relied upon as any sort of intellectual role model.
When I was in elementary school, the prevailing cultural impression that I got from my classmates was that people worked hard at being successful in school were chumps. This didn't really change until I got to college, where there is more self-selection going on. It is still a pretty common notion in the real world: notice how easy intellectuals are demonized during election campaigns.
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I'd agree with that in the American culture, but not in other cultures. Other cultures school and education is very important.
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