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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s a common saying in sports, “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.”

For some reason the hard worker is often looked well upon in sports.

For some reason the hard worker is often looked down upon in academics, especially Asians.[/quote]

But then there’s the Misty Copeland example where talent beat out the kids who had been working hard their whole lives.

Hard work without talent takes you nowhere. 
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But for some reason there's a often a stigma against people who work hard in academics, but no real stigma against people who work hard in sports.[/quote]

I don't think this is true. Working hard in academics is not the same as forcing your kids to do Kumon every day after school. I've never seen anyone looked down on for working hard in academics, but I know plenty of people who think pushing kids into algebra at younger ages, for example, is ridiculous. [/quote]

Oh please! 'Nerd', 'Dork', 'Geek' - these are well known insults in America. Anti-intellectualism has ruled the roost for so long that Richard Hofstadter wrote a book about it in 1963. [/quote]

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