&gt; On the other hand you were supposed to pretend you didn&#x27;t had to study a lot, because kids that study instead of playing were &quot;kujon&quot;s = boring, lame bookworms. It was cool to be smart without working for it.<p>Yea, where I grew up there was also a term like &quot;bookworm&quot; which was used pejoratively, but it wasn&#x27;t cause for social rejection, it was merely one of the myriad of ways that kids tease each other. It&#x27;s not as though the &quot;bookworm&quot; was humiliated or bullied for being so. At least, that&#x27;s how I remember it.