Thursday, July 3, 2008

Cultural stereotypes ... and soccer (sorry, football)

We live in a world of cultural stereotypes.

Excitable Italians, loud Americans, thrifty Scots.

Dave of Cafedave fame shot me a link to this video.

My own heritage is Dutch. And this video captures a very Dutch moment.

Human beings have a remarkable ability to differentiate themselves from other human beings. One of the ways we do it is through picking the differences between ourselves and people of other races.

We have our own pictures of what it is to be Australian, Swedish, Indian, English, Samoan, Kiwi - and we have words we readily put to those pictures (often in our own minds if not on our lips).

So I wonder, if you could capture the essence of your own culture what would it look like in terms of the scoring (and reporting) of a soccer goal?

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