On 30 July 2012 11:21, Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com> wrote: > You're probably right that field hockey is a much bigger sport in the > third world and girl's prep schools. I was thinking mostly of North > America, Europe and Russia.
Well obviously a nation needs to be reasonably affluent to support a sport that is alien to its its climate, which requires artificial rinks with powerful refrigeration to overcome relatively high ambient temperatures even in winter. But you call many of these nations "third world" at the risk of being labeled a cultural imperialist. Hockey is massive in the Asian sub-continent, and is strongly entrenched in Western Europe. Naturally, ice hockey is more strongly followed in Northern and Eastern Europe and North America, where the culture of snow and ice sports is strongest, and barely represented in Central Africa, Equatorial America and South East Asia where there is practically no culture of winter at all. But the people who follow these sports are equal citizens of the world, and are due absolutely no more or less consideration or respect because of their homelands' place in the world or the hue of their flesh. Shame on anyone who would think otherwise. regards, Anthony -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
