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<blockquote data-quote="Viking Bastard" data-source="post: 968319" data-attributes="member: 509">Now, throughout our lives, me and my friends have watched Hollywood material concerning the USA High School-thingy and for years, while we believed that there were some foundings in reality, we also believed this look to be a gross exageration and basically, drama. Oh sure, there'll always be 'popular' kids and there'll always be dorks, but they don't form an actual social ladder/class system and such.Then one of my friends (non-gamer) spent a year in the states (his mom got a job) and went to a High School for a year. Very quickly he got accepted into a 'popular' crowd but got expelled very quickly because, in fact, he began to socialize below him. Hestarted to talk about Star Wars and Kraftwerk to people outside &quot;his crew&quot; (he is one of the nicest guys I know, the kind of guy that can get along with anyone). Suddenly he was being shut outof all kinds of social circles because he was considered &quot;weird&quot;.The horror stories he tells us of just how hard it seemed to be foranyone to be there. How uptight people were. How restricted theywere and how quick people were to typecast. He was horrified.Now, of course, he might have just ended up in a really bad school, socially speaking (although it was supposed to be a really solid one, it was a private school), but it was a real splash in the facethat maybe there were some truth behind the Hollywood idea ofHigh School. That and some of the horrible stories I've heard hereand (especially) on another Sci-Fi board I routinely visit. Plus, thatI've heard similar stories, just the other way around, from American kids I know that have spent time in Icelandic schools.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Viking Bastard, post: 968319, member: 509"] Now, throughout our lives, me and my friends have watched Hollywood material concerning the USA High School-thingy and for years, while we believed that there were some foundings in reality, we also believed this look to be a gross exageration and basically, drama. Oh sure, there'll always be 'popular' kids and there'll always be dorks, but they don't form an actual social ladder/class system and such. Then one of my friends (non-gamer) spent a year in the states (his mom got a job) and went to a High School for a year. Very quickly he got accepted into a 'popular' crowd but got expelled very quickly because, in fact, he began to socialize below him. He started to talk about Star Wars and Kraftwerk to people outside "his crew" (he is one of the nicest guys I know, the kind of guy that can get along with anyone). Suddenly he was being shut out of all kinds of social circles because he was considered "weird". The horror stories he tells us of just how hard it seemed to be for anyone to be there. How uptight people were. How restricted they were and how quick people were to typecast. He was horrified. Now, of course, he might have just ended up in a really bad school, socially speaking (although it was supposed to be a really solid one, it was a private school), but it was a real splash in the face that maybe there were some truth behind the Hollywood idea of High School. That and some of the horrible stories I've heard here and (especially) on another Sci-Fi board I routinely visit. Plus, that I've heard similar stories, just the other way around, from American kids I know that have spent time in Icelandic schools. [/QUOTE]

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