An ode to that “coffee friend”

Re:An ode to that “coffee friend” by drstewart on Thursday October 27, 2022 @03:17AM (#33354280)

>From my POV, the school social structure in USA seems very "schematic". Like there are popular kids and they look like this and have these attitudes, then there are geeks who are socially awkward and physically weak, then there are jocks etc.

What are the odds your POV is coming from television and movies?

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Re:An ode to that “coffee friend” by The_Colonel on Thursday October 27, 2022 @03:34AM (#33354401)

It surely comes from television and movies, that's where I first got to know it. And initially I thought that this is just a media illusion.

But seeing real conversations using those stereotypes ("I was your typical nerd kid at school") here, on reddit and even talking to people IRL convinced me that this "caste system" does actually exist in real life (of course not to the overblown degree shown in movies).

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Re:An ode to that “coffee friend” by rchaud on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:01AM (#33372220)

> What are the odds your POV is coming from television and movies?

I'd be interested to know what the odds are that students themselves are self-selecting into categories based on what they seen in TV and movies.

Today it would be more IG and Tiktok, but what even are those if not micro-reality TV full of tryhards desperate to get a TV deal?

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