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Personally I really dislike those academic eliteists, and the best way to OWN them, is to act like you are all stupid and stuff (and really low-key), until they realize you are better than them academicly
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<p>Fortunately, you do not need to act.</p>
<p>I wish I had taken college credits back in high school. I don't know about dropping out or totally neglecting your HS grades but taking college classes would've been so much better than taking worthless electives.</p>
<p>wouldn't you feel like a total moron for being an ass if you found out that Blackdream might be 10 times smarter than you</p>
<p>um, i came w/ 13 units of CC work from summers of HS.</p>
<p>Wish i had done something like u, would have been a quicker transfer.</p>
<p>However i was not sure if i was ready for tough science classes at CC at 16. Kind of needed to learn study skills in HS. At least i had to.</p>
<p>I met life long friends at HS, those are irreplacable. </p>
<p>I don't regret finishing HS one bit. Best times of my life so far. I am a CC student now. Gona trasnfer in a year.</p>
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wouldn't you feel like a total moron for being an ass if you found out that Blackdream might be 10 times smarter than you
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<p>Why yes, yes I would.</p>
<p>wow, personal attack right there.</p>
<p>Sure, I am stupid. How quickly is your ablity to judge a person stupid based on some comment he made 5 minutes before he sleeps? i THOUGHT african americans are not judgemental, and i believe majority of them are not.</p>
<p>modestman, your action is hardly modest here.</p>
<p>well, maybe you are smarter, if you THINK you are smarter, than puff, you are smarter.</p>
<p>I never knew a person can harbor so much bitterness as you do. </p>
<p>Sometimes violent attack is a showing of weakness. Maybe you are afraid? A truly confident man don't go around and making personal attacks.</p>
<p>i think....everyone should just calm down</p>
<p>I am always calm, but I just get annoyed when some clown suddenly jumps out and attack you.</p>
<p>yeah it's annoying but hey....let em do what they do...you won't know em any further than what's on CC....screw em</p>
<p>I think one's desire to act modest in order to "outsmart" a pompous "elitist" just demonstrates an innate insecurity on his/her part - commonly referred to as an "inferiority complex." This is just my opinion, so I am sure no one cares.</p>
<p>Oh, I dunno. </p>
<p>My one huge pet peeve is condescending people. If those pompous elitists are condescending, then it would really make me want to do bad things.</p>
<p>Of course, they're more likely to be condescending if they think I'm stupid, so that would be a reason not to act that way, thus avoiding the whole problem. So maybe you're right. </p>
<p>Hmmmmm.</p>
<p>To avoid being condescended upon, one can either appear too stupid to be considered a threat to the elitist (the sympathy approach) or appear brighter than the elitist.</p>
<p>We cannot possibly percieve ourself with absolute accuracy, for we either inflate or deflate our ability. </p>
<p>If one used to be an elitist, and since one intend to correct that unfavorable trait, one may appear low-key, or even stupid.</p>
<p>However, the most stupd act one may make is possibly the act of attacking someone, not based on logical argument, but on denouncement of that person's persoanlity.</p>
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<p>What!?!?! So now you are extolling the virtues of logic, even though you ardently denounced it on a previous occasion?</p>
<p>You think its only Chinese and French expectations? I wish you met my dad. He thinks that I go to a school for "mentally challenged" people and that in my school anything lower than an A is a disgraceful shame.</p>
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<p>Where did I say that it was "only" the case in such individuals? Moreover, since when are Asians considered to be exclusively Chinese individuals? I am Indian.</p>
<p>calm down guys...this thread is about me.</p>
<p>parental expectation is probably an intergral part of human biological traits and is universal.</p>
<p>I agree with Blackdream. Some cultures tend to exert more pressure on their kids than others. </p>
<p>Anyway, I made a typo. I meant Asians, not Chinese. That was silly of me. I looked at USnews.com diversity rankings and it stated the hightest percentage minority at different colleges, and Asians are very very overrepresented at top/elite universities. It is actually somewhat incredible. </p>
<p>My parents are Jewish/Russian, and I knew that their background influences the extreme pressure that they tend to overload on me constantly. Anyway, I think immigrants in general hold higher expectations for their children.</p>
<p>heavymetalgod, don't be selfish.</p>
<p>to save a derailed thread isn't selfish, but do look to the clown who derailed it.</p>
<p>this thread is fun to read now with all this pointless bickering over someone making a remark that was clearly uncalled for.</p>