I also didn't see nerd-bullying, coming from a 500-student-per-grade public school in West LA. Admittedly, it was unrepresentative in other ways: one third Ash

I also didn't see nerd-bullying, coming from a 500-student-per-grade public school in West LA. Admittedly, it was unrepresentative in other ways: one third Ashkenazi Jewish, one third Persian Jewish, one third mostly-white-and-Asian other, very high population of affluent immigrants. We were plugged in to American pop culture, but I think we were isolated in some senses. Little to no idolization of the sports teams, for example.