The Importance Of The Geek Culture

Leonid Fridman, the author of the article,”America Need Its Nerds” in the New York Times, addresses how geeks and nerd are portrayed negatively in American society. He asserts the faults in American society’s values in order to convince the readers of the New York Times to appreciate the intellectually curious instead of degrading them. Fridman integrates logos,ethos, and pathos to support his objective of persuading the readers of the New York Times to acknowledge the intellectuals rather than patronizing them.

Throughout the twenty first century, technology is continuously being developed and constantly being advanced. The advancement of technological goods makes pop culture easily exposed and available to most individuals in our society. Although expanding information in mass amounts

In an essay published in the New Yorker in May 1999, entitled “High-School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies,” writer David Denby analyzes movies targeted towards teenagers and the stereotypes associated with them. He begins his essay by describing the archetypal characters in high school genre films: the vapid popular girl and her athletic male counterpart, and the intellectual outsider and her awkward male counterpart. He then describes the reality of teen life, and compares it to the experience depicted in these films. Next, he analyzes the common theme that the geeky characters are the protagonists, and suggests there are such because of their writer's personal experience and a history of geeks being ostracized. Finally, Denby analyzes the tropes in

It appears that in today’s society, intellectual beings, or “geeks” and “nerds” as they’re often referred to, are being pressured in everyday life events because they don’t quite seem to “fit in” even though they are the backbone of America’s economical and technological advances. Although these “nerds” play an important role in keeping America ahead in the scholarly and technological world, they’re rarely ever praised, for instead, they are bashed and labeled with derogatory terms for being too much of a “geek.” As for Leonid Fridman, he addresses America’s behavior towards “nerds” in his essay, “American Needs Its Nerds,” by using irony and antitheses to draw attention to anti-intellectualism values in America and uncover how society is stepping down on its “geeks” and “nerds.”

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)

The Hawaiian culture is both diverse and unique, with its own language, traditions, and beliefs. Despite these multi-faceted characteristics, certain broad stereotypes about the culture persist in the non-Hawaiian population. My paper will explore where race, prejudice and cultural stereotypes come from and how both Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian cultures reinforce these stereotypes.

Asian stereotypes are a product of prevailing myths propagated by various media, from books, plays, movies, television, to even historical propaganda. Generally speaking, the stereotyping of Asian women often swing to extreme types: the docile, subservient sexual object, or the dragon lady. Asian Americans only make up a small percentage of the United States population and live mostly on the west and east coasts of mainland United States and Hawaii. Consequently, the rest of the American population will most likely get their exposures to Asian Americans through television and movies. Popular media exposure to Asian Americans lacks one-on-one acquaintance with Asian Americans. It hinders the process

In this world there are many things people are guilty of, one of those guilt’s is stereotyping others , even if it wasn’t meant in a harmful are negative way we all have been a victim or the aggressor . This paper will discuses what stereotypes are, how they affect people and how stereotypes can affect society. However, the common factor in either situation is that no good comes from stereotyping others.

As the interaction with the family escalates, one of their sons, Junior states that the Internet is a safe place for him, where he can discuss his interests without being teased for them. Dre’s response is “Not now, nerd”. “Nerd” is a term that denotes intelligence, but implies the person is lacking social skills. It is a dysphemism because it is considered a good thing to have intelligence, as they are respected more. However, being unsociable is thought of as bad because it implies that no one enjoys spending time with that person because their personality has flaws. If Junior spends all his time online and not interacting with other people in person, he can therefore be considered a nerd. Dre calls him a nerd to draw attention to his supposed lack of social skills, in hopes that Junior will feel insulted and thus change his behavior. Throughout the episode, Dre is generally not rude to his kids, but his increasing anger led him to insult Junior. In doing so, Junior should get the message that Dre is extremely upset and therefore should change his behavior to be on good terms with his father. Being called a nerd should cause Junior to spend less time on the Internet in order to prove to Dre that he is not a nerd and is a good sociable person. Dysphemism and code switching are both used to help Dre and Bow attempt to get their kids to

Popular culture exists at home but not so much at school classrooms. Few of them incorporate these popular cultural resources into the curriculum and they are underrepresented compared with the school literacy (Marsh, 2013; Rets, 2016). Many teachers view the skills and knowledge gained from home, including popular culture, as “having little value in the classroom context” (Shegar & Weninger, 2010, p.432). Reading and writing then becomes the dominated discourse in the classrooms, which is mainly focused on books and print texts (Marsh, 2013; Shegar& Weninger, 2010). These skills are used to as the only way to assess children’s literacy skills, such as standardized testing, which set limits to literacy learning and practices. Literacy learning is mostly skill-driven, and teacher centered. Thus, a gap exists between home literacy and school literacy (Rets, 2016; Shegar & Weninger, 2010). In addition, teachers also lack knowledge and awareness of children’s popular culture, so they avoid incorporating it into the classroom (Shegar & Weninger, 2010).

In many circles of the world, various groups of people distinguish themselves from one another through religion, language, culture, and sometimes gender. People also develop stereotypes about a particular group of people in order to identify them. However, most of the time, these stereotypes hold true for only some members of a group. Sometimes, these stereotypes are just plain misconceptions that do not even apply to the group it claims to. Stereotypes are placed on people because it is a way to easily identify what type of person or ethnicity an individual is. At one point in time, these stereotypes may have been true; however, in today’s modern society, most of these stereotypes are outdated and false, which leads them to turn into

Otaku, which comes from the Japanese word for home, describes a nerdy individual who is more engaged in their passions, usually technology, manga, or anime, than the world around them. Manga and anime are not as popular in the United States as they are in Japan, but they are becoming more well-known thanks to properties like Naruto and Attack on Titan. The American version of an otaku is more focused on comics, like Batman, or movies and television shows, such as Game of Thrones. Additionally, both young people in the film must commute by taking the train, which is more popular in Japan due to the widespread and efficient public transportation system. In one scene in the movie, the two can be seen running to the train at night in order to make it for their ride home because the Tokyo trains stop running at night.

Dork, dweeb, geek, techie, or trekkie? What is a nerd? Dr. Suess first used the word “nerd” in 1950 it described a “small, unkempt, humanoid creature with a large head and a comically disapproving expression”. Newsweek, just a year later, reported the word beginning to take on a derogatory meaning as someone who is dull, and rigidly conventional. Over the next two decades, the meaning of the word did not improve. In 1971, The Observer called nerds, “people who don't live meaningful lives,” and The Chicago Tribune put it simply in 2002, “silicon valley”. Considering nerd is a slang word, the volatility of its meaning and usage is not surprising. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that the meaning of the word is changing again. Behind the

Globalization has intertwined us up to the point where the whole world has become one entity. Consequently, different cultures have been integrated to what we today known as popular culture. The Internet has converted everything instantly viral like movies, series, book sagas, comics, anime and video games. There is no place on social media where you cannot feel identified with someone with an affinity of your resemblance. Today, being a geek is not an oddity, to the contrary, being a geek has become part of pop culture up to the point where it has turned into a part of our identity. As the evolution of technology has connected identities from all around the world, geek culture has created a network of individuals with mutual values in spite of their race, ethnicity and cultural traditions.

Generally, stereotypical representations tend to be harmless images but the issue rises from the lack of apathy from the public to refine theses stereotypes and this attitude comes with a range of consequences and impacts. Stereotypes are pervasive in the world and have devastating consequences. An example is people and the media being so quick to confuse Arabs, Muslims and Middle Easterners as the same.