|
Great fellas some decent dialogue at last! Yes I agree most of the info (on Patton, the war etc) can be taken out of context but if you plug in the sentences they are downloaded from US sites! The only one that isn't is the German one on the origins of Ki-o-Rahi and the programme you used ABs to interpret the meaning was shocking!
And sleeper I agree the biggest influence in world sport are the globalised trends of 'The market economy' and 'consumerism'.
It is interesting how spectator appeal has been generated by entertainment packages at the games and awesome advertising strategies. I feel however that societies in general may suffer from this trend - of watching sport rather than playing them - because of increased obesity in all western populations and hence the bigger burdens on our health systems.
This is why I see diversity in sports as being healthy, because then people don't become straight-jacketed into participating or behaving within the sports and leisure domain. For instance if everyone followed American football, only a certain number could play (market forces) which leaves millions doing little but watching because of market dictates (ie consumerism practices).
Shouldn't a healthy population embrace diversity then?
Perhaps watch a little sport then go and play some sport themselves?
|