https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures
Talks about this as a cultural thing.
I think people in the west are still surprised that nerds might weightlift or jocks might be really smart.
Talks about this as a cultural thing.
I think people in the west are still surprised that nerds might weightlift or jocks might be really smart.
I'd say that this is even more specifically a US thing. Perhaps it's just exaggerated on TV, but while there is a little bit of this attitude in the UK, I don't anything like the binary split there is portrayed in the US.
On the other hand, my partner attended a school 15 minutes away that was more than 5x the size and had a much different culture, much so more inline with stereotyping to fit the "norms".
The divisions were not between nerds and jocks and preps and band-os and artists: It was basically people who did things and people who didn't do things.
Meanwhile, I am a moderately-intelligent software developer who pulled 280lbs on a deadlift the other day, and celebrated by playing videogames.
"Gifted" does not strictly need to refer to intelligence. Once can be gifted in health, looks, brains, or any number of actual talents or traits. Forrest Gump was dumb, but I'd hardly say he was incapable.