How Do Nerds Affect Society?

“In American schools, the culture exalts the athlete and good-looking cheerleader. Well-educated and intellectual students are commonly referred to in public schools and the media as "nerds," "dweebs," "dorks," and "geeks," and are relentlessly harassed and even assaulted by the more popular "jocks" for openly displaying any intellect” (Williams). In my experience

In today’s society, constant judgement as to how well you fit in achieves nothing, rather distinguishes hope for improvement. Ideas including being looked down upon for an individual’s intelligence or being pushed aside from groups due to one’s academic ability are becoming an epidemic as those who seek to better themselves are seen as inferiors. The United States today is accustomed to issues as far as the negative deterioration towards those who possess higher mental values. In America Needs Its Nerds by Leonid Fridman, a look into how geeks and nerds are identified, the reality of childhood dilemmas, and the problem in the broad spectrum of the globe are all noted and questioned as to why America as a society expresses such a negative position

Leonid Fridman, author of "America Needs Its Nerds" wrote about how people who want to pursue their knowledge should be not be ashamed of that. Fridman develops his argument by talking about how other countries go about learning compared to the U.S, asking rhetorical questions, finding similarities between the different school/ education levels when it comes to the terms "nerd" and "geek".

Author, Alexandra Robbins, in her novel The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth, describes her quirk theory and establishes its credibility as she centers her theory around seven different characters as she narrates their high school experiences. Robbins focuses on the negative effects of popularity and how social norms can affect an individual, regardless of what social group they belong to. She creates an amusing, informative tone in order to appeal to the geeks, freaks, and popular crowds with relatable experiences and strong essays in regards with the social scene, exclusivity, and how one handles a given situation.

In “America Needs Its Nerds” by Leonid Fridman, he shows his concerns of social acceptance. Fridman’s purpose is to reconstruct social acceptance and emphasize how intelligence is necessary to be a world-class power through a matter-of-fact tone that proves there is no better choice to all social classes.

while "geek" conveys specialized expertise and devotion. The former is negative, the latter positive. In a 2007 interview on The Colbert Report, author Richard Clarke said the difference between nerds and geeks is "geeks get it done." (Goldsborough, 2010)

Finally, the author uses exemplification to show how hard it really is being a nerd in America. The author mentions in his passage how, "the average professional ballplayer is much more respected and better paid than faculty members of the best universities". How can one be a nerd who studies hard and gets good grades in a country where they are not as respected as the average ballplayer. Leonid Fridman also mentions in his passage how kids who are nerds tend to become social outcasts. America needs to stop having hatred towards these kids because they are the foundation of this great country and our

In Grant Penrod’s essay called Anti-Intellectualism: Why We Hate Smart Kids he starts by talking about his high school football team and that they won the championship again this year. He says the speech and debate team also won the championship this year. The football team continues to receive mass amounts of praise and attention even after their win, while on the other hand the academic teams that won receive miniscule amounts of recognition. The academic teams might get a shout out at the end of an assembly, but never the amount of praise that the football team receives. The educated kids have the label of nerd and with this label; social norms become more difficult for them. Penrod says that even celebrities make it look like dropping out

The passage "America Needs Its Nerds" is by Leonid Fridman. Leonid explains that America needs more nerds and geeks. The author uses strong words in the passage. Such as "rampant, ostracized, idolized" etc.. The words he uses to explain that nerds and geeks have it the hard way.

America Needs Its Nerds,” an essay indited by Leonid Fridman, proposes a pertinent issue in today’s society: astutely gifted students are ostracized. Fridman argues that keenly intellective, curious students neegd to stop being inglorious of being perspicacious and curious. Society needs to transmute because their current posture towards astuteness is one of pessimism. Fridman develops these arguments in his essay by utilizing the rhetorical strategy of parallelism, drawing conclusions, and utilizing

The passage “America Needs its Nerds” by Leonid Fridman talks about “nerds which are the smart people and what they do different from others. Leonid Fridman develops an argument by using facts, reasoning, and his opinion. The author uses facts to develop an argument by using definitions from “websers new world Dictionary” for example the definition of geek is “is a street performer who shocks the public by biting off heads of live chickens” Geek is more known as a smart person who wears thick glasses. Leonid Fridman uses reasoning to develop an argument. Fridman talks about how some students try to keep their grades up while others pursue knowledge.

In Murray Milner’s: Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids, chapter three mainly talks about conformity and how it really takes place in school, specifically high schools. Throughout the entire chapter Milner talks about what these students do in order to conform with the rest of the “school society”. The basic rules and regulations these teens have to go by in order to really fit in with certain groups. Milner talks about different topics throughout the reading which breaks the entire aspect down for better understanding. He goes from the idea of crowds and their rankings, clothes and the styles that are in demand, speech and different language, all the way down to body language. The status of how a person displays themselves equals the status they are with a specific groups and idea. The idea of a person being broken down

The movie, The Breakfast Club, is a movie about five students who get Saturday school and become friends as a result of it. The characters were: Allison, the quiet girl who would sit in the back and refuse to talk; John, the troublemaker who always talked back to the teachers; Claire, the popular girl who always got what she wanted; Brian, the nerdy student who only cared about having good grades; Andrew, the wrestler who was only focused impressing his father. While watching the movie, I mainly related to Brian. He is pressured to have good grades by his parents and is labeled as the nerd because of it. I am also pressured to have good grades; however, I am labeled as the smart kid in many different classes, but I’m not classified as a nerd.

Surviving high school is no easy task. From the very first day of class, students are forced to find comradery in various social circles. These cliques can range from sports jocks, to math and band geeks, to school club members, and to the social outcasts who could care less about school. While there are more various types of groups, the most common are the jocks and the nerds. As far as everybody in the school in concerned, the popular athletes and the “wimpy” nerds are from two very different planets. However, while there are a lot of differences between the two as far as physical appearance goes, I had the honor of being part of both worlds, and I know for a fact that they have more in common than either would care to admit.

Despite their exclusivity to the average person, around the world there are many that are included. The result is a community that easily generates 10,000 comments a day on a popular article. The pride associated of being part of completely public yet exclusive community leads visitors to be self-proclaimed nerds. Nerds embrace their nerd qualities in many ways in many ways, such as buying apparel from the site.