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[zwzsg]

And this popularity shit? Did someone really give a shit whos popular in the school?

It's a very american thing. Indeed in France (and I suppose other european countries) we don't have popularity contest.

Well, not yet. Not our generation.

Seriously, is all those American TV series about school even nearly true?

The sad thing is that because of all those american TV series, it's changing here too. Discussing with my niece I was horrified to realise popularity has started to become important in french's school as well.

[1v0ry_k1ng]

english secondary schools have somthing similar to the american popularity contest, only with a greater emphasis on getting shanked and less correlation between sports and popularity

[dizekat]

I lol'd at some American TV series where some schoolmate was shocked when he saw the exact same shirt on some guy as he had yesterday! Geez. Is it really that bad out there?

It's in-film advertising.

If you are a marketing person at a big company that makes shirts, what do you do? You work to make people buy *more shirts*. In this case through promoting peer pressure - and I would believe that this works better than you'd think.

edit:

I think it's important to note that both these authors had bad experiences in secondary education. Reading something by a "nerd" who had had a more positive experience would be interesting...

i made a thread for nerdy HS discussion, didn't want to post anything long off-topic here.