Word: nerd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more importantly, they want respect. "Until the words `nerd' and `geek' become terms of approbation and not derision," reads their Manifesto, "we do not stand a chance...
...Geeks' thesis is an odd combination of old-fashioned conservative thinking--just change attitudes and everything else will follow--and nouveau Nerd militancy. They challenge the orthodox liberal view of education; instead of radical legislative action, the Nerds want a cultural catharsis. But their solution misses the point on several issues...
SONG is playing a chicken-and-egg game. Do Nerds become Nerds because of social ostracization, or do they suffer ostracization because of their nerdiness. SONG would claim the latter. A Nerd, as they tacitly define it (they never do so explicitly, preferring to keep membership wide open) is a lover of knowledge who suffers socially because...