You're Asian, you must be smart, right?

I was woken up by a kitty this morning, you can check the omni-blog for the details of it all. The gist of the whole thing is that I woke up to the cat, named Huckie, meowing outside my window. It took me a bit to realize it was stuck up there, so I pushed open my screen, and carried him to my front door, and to the world. Now, the whole thing was kinda fun, I've always liked cats, but I was sad 'cause the cat bolted as soon as I put it down ;_;. Not that I'm really all that sad, I got over it, but yeah, poor me :P. On the other hand, nice incidents like this keep me going. Not that anything significant actually happened, but I generally feel better once I've done something that helped someone else in some way, and helping animals is always fun. Good times all in all, I can't imagine a better way of being woken up than by a cat, kinda makes me want one of my own now ^_^.
Now, someone said to me at one point that he wasn't much fond of philosophy 'cause "that stuff gets in your head, and it won't get out". Now, see, I don't see a problem with that, since that's been the case for me for several years now at the very least, and I said so. He responded that it sucked because "you end up talking and thinking about a lot of stuff that people don't care about". Maybe I misunderstood him, but I don't see that as a problem. Don't most people in their fields study things that the majority of the American public wouldn't give a rat's ass about? Or, if they do care, it's the passing, fickle type of caring, something to tell someone later in the day rather than something they will follow or actually think about in depth. All in all, that last comment just seemed like a really lousy reason to not want to study Philo. Not that the person had any strong feelings on it, or that the comment was intended as a reasoning, but it seems to me a comment somewhat revealing of character. I suppose I won't think about it too much, but, phew, it saddens me that some people think like that.