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The geek culture in the US is simply amazing. People build all kinds of miraculous machineries at home, many of which have become world-class products. Some pro
by hintymad 6y ago
The geek culture in the US is simply amazing. People build all kinds of miraculous machineries at home, many of which have become world-class products. Some products even changed the history of mankind.
What's even more amazing is that the US somehow keeps this culture despite decades of mockery and bullying from the pop culture and from school, and despite that generations of Americans thought that the biggest events had to be the football games in their neighborhood high schools and the coolest people were queen bees and sports jockeys.
- adammunich 6y agoThe football people quickly burn out when nerds are just getting started.
- Sanzig 6y agoThe creator of the linked electron microscope project was a PhD student at McGill (in Montreal) when he built it and (according to his LinkedIn) is currently a startup co-founder in Montreal. So... not sure where US geek culture fits in to this.
- hintymad 6y agoThanks. I falsely assumed that the creator was in the US. Hopefully Canada does not have this strange culture of looking down upon geeks as in the US (so much so that Paul Graham wrote the essay on revenge of nerds, which I couldn't even understand where his emotion came or why he wrote the essay until I came to the US years later).
- kiba 6y agoIs this simply a trope made up and amplified by hollywood?
- vajrabum 6y agoLess smart Americans often have little respect for their smarter compatriots or their smarter compatriot's opinions. That isn't new. Ever hear the term egghead? Modern propaganda about climate and infectious disease have exacerbated the problem.
- pretendscholar 6y agoI think you are stuck on hollywood from 30 years ago. It's cool to be a geek now lose the persecution complex.