I explaned the meaning to him and gave him some exmaples and stuff.
After some days he said to me:
"I'm not a geek, I'm a muslim!!! and I don't believe in such definitions. The human is a human, not a geek"
LMAO, I was about to fall from the chair laughing.
Hey geeks, don't worship PCs this is "kufr"
Anyways
Q: What is a Nerd ?
A: A Nerd is an intellegent person fascinated by knowledge and learning just becoz he loves to learn to feed his curiosity, means that he doesn't do this for fame, money or degrees.
These stuff came afterwards and most nerds put them in the secong place.
A Nerd brain has extremely active logic center but his imagination center is underperforming.
Most nerds are altruistic, so if you ask them for help they'll do in a clear nerdy way.
Quote from nerds "I wanna be a famous scientist like Enistien!"
Most nerds don't think to use thier knowledge, they just accumulate it.
Q: What is a Geek ?
A: A Geek is a person who is fascinated by technology.
Not only that, many geeks go out, watch movies, read fiction books and stuff.
A geek's brain has active both logic and imagination centers.
On the contrary of nerds, most geeks are selfish, if you ask them for help they may ask you for money or anything instead, or not give you the info you ask for in a clear geeky way.
They may explain the concepts to you and let you search by yourself to discover, or give you a starting key, they hate to give you the knowledge clearly like feeding a child with a spoon.
Quote from geeks "I wanna make money with my great programming skills"
Geeks use thier knowledge and apply they skills in their daily life.
Both nerds and geeks find it hard to concentrate on the same activity or subject for too long, this called attention deficit (we'll talk about it later).
Nerds who overcome this attention deficit can become famous in academic positions, as most of these positions require the nerd to work in the same field for many years.
Because of this attention deficit, nerds and geeks find it hard communicating with their social enviroment, but geeks have social contacts more than nerds.
Its common to find nerds with geeky side and also to find some intellegent geeks with nerdy characteristics such as special interenst in sciences.
Usually nerds are more intelligent than geeks.
Although nerds and geeks have many similarities, they often dislike each other, but they know clearly that they can enrich themselves via their interaction.
Normal culture (mainstream culture) hates both nerds and geeks subcultures, normal societies accuse these subcultures of being isolated, weird and they're supressed and may be dangerous on their communities, but after the emergence of computers socity has to accept geeks out of necessity becoz of their technologoical skills, but they still against nerds.
Whatever the society thinks of them, both nerds and geeks are proud of what they are.
Ok, I think you now know the diffenrence, let's talk about nerds and geeks in Egypt.
In Egypt, most nerds seek knowledge to get graduated with high rates, also to get degrees like Master degrees or PhD to make them respected in their socity(the scoity only respects two types of people, those who earns big money in the first place and in the second place those who have academic degrees).
Back to nerds in egypt:
Mainly they don't understand what they learn, they just memorize it, like when you fill a bucket with something, the bucket doesn't know whether it is full of water or sh*t.
After graduation. If they continue and work in academic stuff, they find it hard to explain the knowledge they "learned" which they don't understand clearly to the students, so they give them loads of stuff to study to force them to memorize too and to prevent any chance that these students may find some free time to have any other activity which they may master.
And after that, they may force thier children to go study in colleges they work in, and after some years their sons will be teachers too even if they don't have what it takes to be a teacher (academic or scentific), why ?, becoz his father/mother is a teacher in this college (inheritance).
And the chain starts again.
For geeks, Most Egyptians who have PCs think of themselves as geeks and they wanna to show that they're masters in geeking and stuff, especially to their friends and families.
So what they can do ?
They seek the internet for Open-Source applications and games, download them and recompile them after putting thier name instead of the original author, or may change some colors or styles if they were smarter, without reading even a single line from the code.
They amaze their friends from the "amazing" work they did, and also they start to tell them some tech tips and tricks about the PC which will make you laugh loudly if you hear any of them (I'll make a section especially for these tips and tricks I heared in the last 7 years) and thier friends believe them. Not only that, their friends spread these tips for others, and so on.
I think if you live in Egypt, you must have met someone like those I talked about, bunch of liars, closed-minded and hypocrites people.
At last, I finished.
g2g now to manage my "real" geeky life.
Salam
Sources I used:
http://portal.wikinerds.com/
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
After some days he said to me:
"I'm not a geek, I'm a muslim!!! and I don't believe in such definitions. The human is a human, not a geek"
LMAO, I was about to fall from the chair laughing.
Hey geeks, don't worship PCs this is "kufr"
Anyways
Q: What is a Nerd ?
A: A Nerd is an intellegent person fascinated by knowledge and learning just becoz he loves to learn to feed his curiosity, means that he doesn't do this for fame, money or degrees.
These stuff came afterwards and most nerds put them in the secong place.
A Nerd brain has extremely active logic center but his imagination center is underperforming.
Most nerds are altruistic, so if you ask them for help they'll do in a clear nerdy way.
Quote from nerds "I wanna be a famous scientist like Enistien!"
Most nerds don't think to use thier knowledge, they just accumulate it.
Q: What is a Geek ?
A: A Geek is a person who is fascinated by technology.
Not only that, many geeks go out, watch movies, read fiction books and stuff.
A geek's brain has active both logic and imagination centers.
On the contrary of nerds, most geeks are selfish, if you ask them for help they may ask you for money or anything instead, or not give you the info you ask for in a clear geeky way.
They may explain the concepts to you and let you search by yourself to discover, or give you a starting key, they hate to give you the knowledge clearly like feeding a child with a spoon.
Quote from geeks "I wanna make money with my great programming skills"
Geeks use thier knowledge and apply they skills in their daily life.
Both nerds and geeks find it hard to concentrate on the same activity or subject for too long, this called attention deficit (we'll talk about it later).
Nerds who overcome this attention deficit can become famous in academic positions, as most of these positions require the nerd to work in the same field for many years.
Because of this attention deficit, nerds and geeks find it hard communicating with their social enviroment, but geeks have social contacts more than nerds.
Its common to find nerds with geeky side and also to find some intellegent geeks with nerdy characteristics such as special interenst in sciences.
Usually nerds are more intelligent than geeks.
Although nerds and geeks have many similarities, they often dislike each other, but they know clearly that they can enrich themselves via their interaction.
Normal culture (mainstream culture) hates both nerds and geeks subcultures, normal societies accuse these subcultures of being isolated, weird and they're supressed and may be dangerous on their communities, but after the emergence of computers socity has to accept geeks out of necessity becoz of their technologoical skills, but they still against nerds.
Whatever the society thinks of them, both nerds and geeks are proud of what they are.
Ok, I think you now know the diffenrence, let's talk about nerds and geeks in Egypt.
In Egypt, most nerds seek knowledge to get graduated with high rates, also to get degrees like Master degrees or PhD to make them respected in their socity(the scoity only respects two types of people, those who earns big money in the first place and in the second place those who have academic degrees).
Back to nerds in egypt:
Mainly they don't understand what they learn, they just memorize it, like when you fill a bucket with something, the bucket doesn't know whether it is full of water or sh*t.
After graduation. If they continue and work in academic stuff, they find it hard to explain the knowledge they "learned" which they don't understand clearly to the students, so they give them loads of stuff to study to force them to memorize too and to prevent any chance that these students may find some free time to have any other activity which they may master.
And after that, they may force thier children to go study in colleges they work in, and after some years their sons will be teachers too even if they don't have what it takes to be a teacher (academic or scentific), why ?, becoz his father/mother is a teacher in this college (inheritance).
And the chain starts again.
For geeks, Most Egyptians who have PCs think of themselves as geeks and they wanna to show that they're masters in geeking and stuff, especially to their friends and families.
So what they can do ?
They seek the internet for Open-Source applications and games, download them and recompile them after putting thier name instead of the original author, or may change some colors or styles if they were smarter, without reading even a single line from the code.
They amaze their friends from the "amazing" work they did, and also they start to tell them some tech tips and tricks about the PC which will make you laugh loudly if you hear any of them (I'll make a section especially for these tips and tricks I heared in the last 7 years) and thier friends believe them. Not only that, their friends spread these tips for others, and so on.
I think if you live in Egypt, you must have met someone like those I talked about, bunch of liars, closed-minded and hypocrites people.
At last, I finished.
g2g now to manage my "real" geeky life.
Salam
Sources I used:
http://portal.wikinerds.com/
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
1 comment:
I didn't read it in details because of exams, but I will come back soon
I just wanted to add these :
click here for more about GEEKs
click here for more about NERDs
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