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    Globalism for You, But Not for Me

    Posted by Lev/Christopher on February 12, 2010 at 5:38am
    in Forum

    Picture this: A group of kids all get together to hang out and play a game. Everyone offers suggestions for what they want to play, but one young boy who is known for being quite headstrong and controlling says everyone should play football because it is his favorite sport. This boy has wielded a great deal of clout in most activities and wants everyone to get along nicely, but he has a hard time accepting when the situation doesn't turn out according to his plans. Well, even though they know of "Big Boy's" strength, the rest of the group decides they want to play a game of soccer, which leaves him standing on the sidelines. Big Boy really wants to join in and play a game with the rest of the guys, but he doesn't want to play soccer because he's not in control. He resists joining them, makes fun of them, calls them sissy, tries to pull some guys away to play football, baseball, or basketball, but they are just having toomuch fun playing soccer. Big Boy is a persistent fellow who really wants to play a game, so he comes up with the plan to start up his own brand of soccer. Should Big Boy continue in his resistance, just join the main game, too, or play his own way, or not play at all? What would be best for everyone?

    This same scenario can be applied to the culture wars going on in America in relation to the rest of the world and globalism. In his book, How Soccer Explains the World, reporter, Franklin Foer uses the popular sport, soccer, to identify America's feelings and positions on globalism. He shows that the United States is so used to being the top dog in so many other areas, that accepting to give into globalism through a medium that it didn't initiate, causes us to resist joining the crowd, make fun of it, and try to create a new brand of the sport so our country will have the upper hand of control. The heart of the issue is selfishness. Foer cuts right to the core of the United State's selfishness in saying, "There exists an important cleavage between the parts of the country that have adopted soccer as its pastime and the places that haven't. And this distinction lays bare an underrated source of American cultural cleavage:globalization" (240).

    Since the birth of the United States around 1776, our country has grown into a powerful, controlling, leading country in areas spanning from politics, to economics, to culture, and sports activities. America knows it controls the market of football, basketball, and baseball, and they have been pretty successful in reaping the profits and benefits of these games within the borders of this country. But, the efforts to spread these sports to the rest of the globe has only gained success with baseball, and those successes have not amounted to much . Foer points out, "Major League Baseball, let's face it, has been a loser in globalization" (244). The sports culture war within the United States shows, "the number of teens playing baseball fell 47% between 1987 and 2000. During the same period, youth soccer grew exponentially" (244). Many global elitist Americans want to keep their culture so unique andsuperior that they won't accept that Americans could enjoy anything else. Allen Barra, a sportswriter for the Wall Street Journal taking the isolationist stance said, "Americans are such suckers when it comes to something with a European label" and more than that he resists soccer enthusiasts who want the U.S. to "get with the rest of the world's program" (243). Football, baseball, and basketball marketers don't want to lose their fans, but, as the number of soccer fans increase, the other sports get moved to the sidelines.

    Pride in ones country is good for the sake of unity and heritage, but when it leads to ridiculing something different, it can only bring about division. A large portion of Americans have taken to making soccer an object of reproach by saying, "hating soccer is more American than apple pie" (240) because it threatens to change the American culture. They act like it's the world's mechanism to invade and take over. Buffalo Bills quarterback Jack Kemp said, "Football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport" (241). Some people have made ranting against soccer a pastime itself. Radio Shock jock, Jim Rome loves to rail on soccer, and people listen to him call it weak, feminine, stupid, etc. While attacking the Umbro brand he once said, "If it's incredibly stupid and soccer is in any way related, then soccer must be the root cause of the stupidity" (242). Soccer hater bullies canonly console themselves by hurting the soccer movement any way they can. Allen Barra writes, "Yes, okay, soccer is the most 'popular' game in the world. And rice is the most 'popular' food in the world. So what? Maybe other countries can't afford football, basketball and baseball leagues" (243). So far, ridiculing soccer has not stopped people from enjoying it, or slowed it's spread of globalism in America, so elite globalists have come up with another tactic.

    The United States manages to take control in many of the world affairs and justifies most of its decisions and exploits by making the issue its own. American capitalists and elite globalists have come up with a new concept of soccer. "In every other part of the world, soccer's sociology varies little: it is the province of the working class"(238), and Jimmy in Glasgow said, "It's life or death here, mate" (62). But for America it represented a tabula rasa onto which parents could project their values of the "fundamental tenants of yuppie parenting; a chance for a child to participate in a less competitive, win-oriented atmosphere" (237). The hooligan mentality was erased. Also, "The United States inverts the class structure of the game" (239). It has been made into a middle and upper class sport just like the rest of the sports because of the costs for equipment and ticket prices arehigh. It is now another economic venture for the U.S., so they like it better. Now American elite globalists can send their soccer out and globalize the rest of the world.

    The United States has pushed for globalism and persisted to bring its democratic ideals to the rest of the world, but in the end, the United States does not want to be globalized itself. Soccer is just a game, but it is also a great deal more than just a game. There has been much cultural contention within the United States between those who love the sport of soccer and could care less if it is a global sport- they just enjoy the game. It is true that soccer has had a global affect of making people realize that 'it's a small world after all,' and many nations have been able to interact on the different fields of the world. The United States, especially has had a hard time swallowing this sport because it's so used to coming up with all the 'good ideas', but the United States would do best to play the game fair and square without a pout. This would prove to the rest of the world that it can hold onto its unique identity, and respect theunique identities of other cultures around the globe.

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    yeah, resisting globalism, what a weakness :)

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