"Go East" :A Mantra echoed even in Olympics
Is the sun finally setting on Uncle Sam's Empire? The jobs are running out of America, the terror threats are increasing, Bush is seen more as a scourge than a friend in most countries and the Olympic Dream team was beaten by Argentina, a country torn by bad politics. I was surprised by America's feeble showing at the Olympics. It won Bronze in events where it should won Gold. One more sore point is the fact that America wins only in sports where it has always won, it has not broken new ground in many sports. The dismal showing may not top the headlines as America gets ready for yet another season for Pro Football. American players and fans show more patriotism( in sports) to their clubs than to the country as they seldom see the Americans as a team competing for anything. Also "capitalism" has savaged the "patriotism" as players are more faithful to the owners who feed them rather than the country that raised them.
I am sure many of you are screaming "People living in glass houses should not throw stones at others" as India, my home country, managed just a solitary medal; but India has never boasted to be a world bully and also taking into account the great gulf in infrastructural, fiscal difference between the two countries, I am justified in bashing the Americans.
Yahoo! Sports - Olympics - U.S. tops charts for third straight Summer Olympics; China leads Asian meda...
Is the sun finally setting on Uncle Sam's Empire? The jobs are running out of America, the terror threats are increasing, Bush is seen more as a scourge than a friend in most countries and the Olympic Dream team was beaten by Argentina, a country torn by bad politics. I was surprised by America's feeble showing at the Olympics. It won Bronze in events where it should won Gold. One more sore point is the fact that America wins only in sports where it has always won, it has not broken new ground in many sports. The dismal showing may not top the headlines as America gets ready for yet another season for Pro Football. American players and fans show more patriotism( in sports) to their clubs than to the country as they seldom see the Americans as a team competing for anything. Also "capitalism" has savaged the "patriotism" as players are more faithful to the owners who feed them rather than the country that raised them.
I am sure many of you are screaming "People living in glass houses should not throw stones at others" as India, my home country, managed just a solitary medal; but India has never boasted to be a world bully and also taking into account the great gulf in infrastructural, fiscal difference between the two countries, I am justified in bashing the Americans.
Yahoo! Sports - Olympics - U.S. tops charts for third straight Summer Olympics; China leads Asian meda...
the pro-sports are more exciting, primarily b'coz the competition is intense. and that is due to the amount of money the players stand to make. thats capitalism dude, got to live with that if u're in the US.
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saranyan r |
4:30 PM