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| 03:19 AM Nov 18 2012

Saladeen

Pakistan

Street smart:
The general definition of street smart is someone who is intelligent, has good common sense, knows how to handle bad situations, and has the skills necessary to function where they live (usually the ghetto or the streets). However, the term is usually used to contrast and compare with another term known as “book smart”.
The stereotype of a street smart person is someone who is intelligent and knows how to handle important situations in the streets but is not as well-educated academically. However, the stereotype of a book smart person is someone who is upper-class and well educated but less knowledgeable when it comes to handling important situations faced in bad neighborhoods and lower-class city areas.
The more extreme and negative stereotypes are that street smart people are unintelligent and incapable of achieving a higher education, while book smart people are naive, easily manipulated, and have bad judgment in bad situations.
Both stereotypes aren’t always true and any semblance of them are only due to different lifestyles and experiences.
Josh: Are you sure me and Jason will get along? Jason is street smart and I’m book smart. We will probably be very different from each other.
Mike: Nah, don’t worry. Jason may be street smart but he is also book smart. I’m sure you two will have a lot in common.

| 02:41 AM Nov 18 2012

MsX

Russian Federation

Saladeen, do you mean academy education vs innate intelligence?

| 07:57 AM Nov 17 2012

Saladeen

Pakistan

What abt if the idea is academy smart vs street smart :)

| 05:33 AM Nov 17 2012

MsX

Russian Federation

I think it’s a school reform in action. :(

| 03:54 AM Nov 17 2012

Saladeen

Pakistan

I like your view so much, yeah, that need to be destroyed … maybe after coming down to the ground I will converse in joy, up above the ivory towers is nothing but destruction, I feel so sorry for myself sometimes.

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