Browsing through /sci, I can't help but notice all the talk

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Browsing through /sci, I can't help but notice all the talk about a certain hierarchy among majors, how certain majors are better than others, etc. When I contrast this to /lit or /his, which is where I usually browse, there's not nearly as much of this. While, obviously, /sci is a board that encompasses a wider variety of majors, and this is fucking 4chan so what did I expect, why is it that STEM people in particular tend to be so obsessed with this shit? I notice even in my uni that there happens to be this sort of hierarchy among STEM people and it's pretty irritating. Before you think this is a humanities inferiority thing, I major in Neuroscience; I just happen to like literature. But I feel like, in the scientific community, especially for undergrads, this need to make sure that "my science is the best science" creates certain divisions among people who could have learned interesting things from each other, and sort of shows a lack of inherent interest in the science itself. I might be reaching, but I feel like when you get so obsessed with trying to prove that your major is better than others, you're either insecure about your choice, or are interested in the major simply because of the identity that's associated with it. Which, I think, is a very dangerous path to take, but something that I see a lot of STEM people doing. For example, a lot of people I know are clearly majoring in CS because of the identity of "the coder" or whatever that seems so appealing to them, and this seems kinda fucked up. And I don't see this phenomenon nearly as much in the humanities. While there are the occasional pretentious douches who who read Ulysses to look smart, the identity of the English major is not nearly as coveted in the modern world, so humanities people, in my experience, tend to have a more genuine interest in the subject itself rather than an interest in the image associated with it. What do you guys think about this? This might just be my experience.