Who's A Nerd Anyway?

Wow, I don't think I have EVER thought about nerdiness being related to being white or "extremely white." I have never put a racial association to who nerds are. It is interesting however, to read Benjamin Nugent's article and see the different views on the language used by white nerds, popular whites, and blacks. It seems as though all black people talk the same way and white people have 3 different was of talking: regularly, nerdy, and like black people. I think some black people are nerds too just not as many because like Mary Bucholtz said, black students choose not to openly display their scholarly abilities so that they are not labeled to the nerd clique, whereas many white people don't mind or would even be proud to be labeled nerds. My own opinion on nerdiness is that it is just someone being goofy or silly. I will call any of my friends or family nerds from time to time when they act or say something strange or goofy, even though they do not exhibit any of Bucholtz's findings or studies on what nerds are, wear, and do.