Dr. Jill Biden wants BOTH LSU and IOWA WBB to visit White House.

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(04-09-2023, 11:30 AM)Dill Wrote: I think it's an American thing, since "Dr." is quite a respected title in Europe in non-medical disciplines.

Here we just don't put much store in book-learnin' the way they do in other countries. 

Americans are more comfortable with people bragging about wealth and sports accomplishments;
but fancy degrees don't make you better or "smarter" than anyone else. 

Don't be fooled, a lot of American people decided medical doctors weren't all that legit during covid.  We tend to value a person's accomplishments only as far as they fit with our own mindsets.

There is an anti-education bias growing on the right, because republicans used to be the college educated variety while democrats were the working class type and things have done a bit of a 180.  It's mostly amusing when you have republican leaders who have ivy league educations acting like they are obnoxious hicks because that's who votes for them.

Look at the pundits on Fox News, they have juris doctorates or advanced degrees from elite ivy league schools and they sit in their massive HQ in Manhattan and talk about how education is bad, blue states are bad and so on and so forth.

It takes all kinds of people to make a world and neither of my parents went to college, but it's interesting seeing the educated elites sit in their tower in NYC as they extol the negatives of all they embody and where they are when they could just quit and live the dream of being a coal miner in rural Mississippi.