Has anyone done polling in this? Is it actually true?
Sounds broadly true to me. If your Indian parents have put you through a private education – and private schools provide a hugely disproportionate number of professional cricketers in the UK – telling them you want to go into the nets rather than into law/medicine/accountancy is a tough conversation.
Asians do put a lot of emphasis on education, but they’re cricket mad too, look at India where the likes of Kohli are like Gods.
Not sure about black people preferring football, I remember Michael Holding bemoaning his Windies side going downhill because all the guys there were choosing basketball over cricket, mainly due to the money he said, but who knows it could be true they prefer football, someone may have a survey on it.
Surely its self-fulfilling? If you gatekeep a marginal sport behind an expensive paywall, you are massively reducing the number and variety of people coming in at the bottom?
Shows how ignorant this subreddit is when the only comments on this article are saying ‘he’s not wrong’ and other absurdist takes attempting to confirm this bullshit stereotype.
Whether his statement is right or wrong is irrelevant. If its true then why is what is important.
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Has anyone done polling in this? Is it actually true?
Sounds broadly true to me. If your Indian parents have put you through a private education – and private schools provide a hugely disproportionate number of professional cricketers in the UK – telling them you want to go into the nets rather than into law/medicine/accountancy is a tough conversation.
Asians do put a lot of emphasis on education, but they’re cricket mad too, look at India where the likes of Kohli are like Gods.
Not sure about black people preferring football, I remember Michael Holding bemoaning his Windies side going downhill because all the guys there were choosing basketball over cricket, mainly due to the money he said, but who knows it could be true they prefer football, someone may have a survey on it.
Surely its self-fulfilling? If you gatekeep a marginal sport behind an expensive paywall, you are massively reducing the number and variety of people coming in at the bottom?
Shows how ignorant this subreddit is when the only comments on this article are saying ‘he’s not wrong’ and other absurdist takes attempting to confirm this bullshit stereotype.
Whether his statement is right or wrong is irrelevant. If its true then why is what is important.