Sigh. My eyeballs are in overdrive today. In this world there are the collectivists, the individualists and the pure delusional.
Came across this other article on the Internet about table-tennis. The last paragraph took the cake.
"Still, we’ll never appreciate table tennis like the Chinese do. We’ll never chant and ooh and ahh when the rubber hits the tiny plastic ball and our parlor game becomes real sport, serious sports, a deep-seeded national pastime, a thread in this nation’s cultural fabric."
Hmm. So a sport in which the USA isn’t good at is degraded to a "parlour game" and a sport which is popular in the US is a serious sport?
Gee. Then as a Singaporean, I guess I can say this:
"Still, I’ll never appreciate baseball like the Americans do. I’ll never chant and ooh and ahh when the bat hits the ball and my Nintendo Wii game becomes real sport, serious sports, a deep-seeded national pastime, a thread in this nation’s cultural fabric".
*Rolls eyes*.
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