The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.