Posted on 08/15/2016 10:25:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
During my college days in India, I had access to several outdoor tennis and indoor/outdoor badminton courts. My house even had a badminton court in the backyard. However my priorities were academic and not sports. After my bachelor’s degree, I came to US for Master’s in engineering. Again my priorities were academic and not sports, although I did win an intramural badminton tournament at the university. The student competition in US was much less severe than in India. The one sport I really like now is golf, and spent many fun years as a member at Royal Oaks country club in Vancouver, WA. It is the best golf course in southern Washington state.
Guess Cricket isn’t an Olympic sport. Actually having Cricket in the Olympics makes a lot more sense than a lot of the events they have now.
Cricket is popular only in former British colonies such as India, South Africa, West Indies, Australia, etc. Therefore it can not be considered a worldwide sport.
Lots of Olympic sports are not worldwide.
1/3 of all scientists and engineers in the world are Indians. In United States, the ethnic group with highest income is the Indians. So I guess Indians have different priorities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjB_Tf7Cy3A&feature=related
Which Olympic sports are not worldwide? For example baseball and American football are played in more than just the USA but are not Olympic sports. Soccer, Badminton, Tennis, Ping Pong, field hockey, etc are played on all 5 continents.
Cricket is played around the world too. With the Indians moving to this country, I expect over time the US to start fielding competitive teams.
What’s funny is that they say Soccer is the world’s most popular game, yet the three most populous countries: India and China and the US don’t do particularly well at it.
The one thing the Indian community does not talk about is that the parent don’t allow their daughters to participate in sports that are outdoors because they don’t want their daughters to get “dark” by playing in the sun.
Cricket has been reformed quite a bit since my college days. In those days so called test matches between countries took 5 days, and 6 hours each days! It was a game for the rich people with much leisure time on hands. Now it has been made shorter, but I understand the match play still encompasses multiple days of play. Not suitable for Olympics unless they change the rules much more!
Cricket has been reformed quite a bit since my college days. In those days so called test matches between countries took 5 days, and 6 hours each days! It was a game for the rich people with much leisure time on hands. Now it has been made shorter, but I understand the match play still encompasses multiple days of play. Not suitable for Olympics unless they change the rules much more!
Wait another few generations, and everything will even out. Look at how the Indian community in Canada and England perform. They are at average.
Lot of truth in that, lighter complexions are a much valued commodity in Indian culture. That is also true in most South-East Asian countries.
I agree.
Watch any Bollywood movie and that becomes crystal clear.
What I also notice is, it's the same in Mexico. Watch the telenovelas, everyone is European-looking.
I know why soccer is not big in India. Cricket popularity overwhelms soccer there. Somewhat true in US also, where Football & baseball are much more popular than soccer.
I guess in China, it’s Ping-Pong.
It is the same in every Asian country (China, Japan, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand etc and probably South America as well. On the other hand, European origin people with light complexions are constantly trying to get a sun-tan and curl their hair!
If poop in the water was an Olympic event, Rio would not even reach the podium, but India’s Ganges would take the gold!
I got a call this week from Indians purporting to be from the IRS who wanted me to go to the supermarket, buy $2000 in iTunes gift cards in $500 increments, and somehow send/wire the money to them or they would have me arrested immediately.
They even played scanner noise in the background to scare me that the cops were on the way, and when I balked they said that they suspended my DL right then and there.
Filthy Indians!
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