Several
years out of college, I was having dinner with a few of my old high
school buddies. One of them, Filmore, was making an observation about cultural shifts, and lamenting our relatively disadvantaged social life growing up.
"Today,
it's great. High school kids just don't seem to care about race. They intermingle much more, now. In fact, interracial dating is really common. We would have done a lot more dating if it was like this when we were teenagers."
I was floored. I had a completely different understanding.
"Fil,
the reason we didn't get dates in high school isn't because we were
minorities. The reason we didn't get dates in high school is because we
were nerds!"
It never even occurred to him.