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Re: Yanki Hate Yardie
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Y ???
There is a arrogance of entitlement that yankis portray in sport...
Gatlin, Green,Johnson all did that.. watch the body language of the yankis compare it to the other atheletes.. U hear it in their begrudging praise of Jamaica.. Their sports writers belittle and cast doubt.. Read the reports and see the small asides in them.. compare it to the fulsome praise and joy of say the india press.. or even the Jamaioca press reports of other nations...
The Chinese government must have loved the Jamaican team....beyond words...at Beijing.. They won the most medals.. but the yardies denied the yankis the opertunity to say "u won all the medals, but we won the 100m"... And the yankis could not say after the world championship it was a blip nor after London..
Just wait till we dont have the 100 m winner at a world championship or the Olympics and u will see......
<span style="font-size: 14pt">Yes they hate us.. they cant see us as equal </span></div></div>
I don't agree with the thread title or that last sentence.
In general, yes, Americans have a strong sense of entitlement, and we wouldn't be happy no matter who won if it wasn't us, but I don't think that's unique to us. That's no excuse for poor sportsmanship though. We also tend to be self-absorbed so most news here features us as the star. Right or wrong, there isn't that much interest in what is going on around the world that doesn't feature us as the star. The media knows this and caters to it.
Specifically though, the majority of Black Americans do not hate Jamaicans or see them as unequal. That just goes completely against the code.
The majority of America is not multicultural so most have never even given it any thought given our self-absorbed nature, and as a result we are geographically challenged anyway. Most grow up in a land of black, white, or other. Black covers all and sundry who is not lily white or other (someone who is not white but doesn't appear to have any Black mixed in either). That is why we see Obama and Tiger and Halle and whoever as Black without a second thought. We think in race.
This means that if you are Black, no matter where you are from, you can be reasonably certain that most Black Americans see you as equal. (Admittedly, there has been a different perception of Africans in generations gone by but that would need to be a whole other thread about why we hold "white" up as the holy grail of racial purity.)
There are exceptions of course. My college roommate was from Brooklyn and she had a bias and a racial slur for everyone from every country it seemed including of course, Jamaica. Her way of thinking is the exception not the rule as the majority of Black Americans did not grow up in and do not live in multicultural metro areas such as NYC or Miami so we have very few country-specific biases..
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Y ???
There is a arrogance of entitlement that yankis portray in sport...
Gatlin, Green,Johnson all did that.. watch the body language of the yankis compare it to the other atheletes.. U hear it in their begrudging praise of Jamaica.. Their sports writers belittle and cast doubt.. Read the reports and see the small asides in them.. compare it to the fulsome praise and joy of say the india press.. or even the Jamaioca press reports of other nations...
The Chinese government must have loved the Jamaican team....beyond words...at Beijing.. They won the most medals.. but the yardies denied the yankis the opertunity to say "u won all the medals, but we won the 100m"... And the yankis could not say after the world championship it was a blip nor after London..
Just wait till we dont have the 100 m winner at a world championship or the Olympics and u will see......
<span style="font-size: 14pt">Yes they hate us.. they cant see us as equal </span></div></div>
I don't agree with the thread title or that last sentence.
In general, yes, Americans have a strong sense of entitlement, and we wouldn't be happy no matter who won if it wasn't us, but I don't think that's unique to us. That's no excuse for poor sportsmanship though. We also tend to be self-absorbed so most news here features us as the star. Right or wrong, there isn't that much interest in what is going on around the world that doesn't feature us as the star. The media knows this and caters to it.
Specifically though, the majority of Black Americans do not hate Jamaicans or see them as unequal. That just goes completely against the code.
The majority of America is not multicultural so most have never even given it any thought given our self-absorbed nature, and as a result we are geographically challenged anyway. Most grow up in a land of black, white, or other. Black covers all and sundry who is not lily white or other (someone who is not white but doesn't appear to have any Black mixed in either). That is why we see Obama and Tiger and Halle and whoever as Black without a second thought. We think in race.
This means that if you are Black, no matter where you are from, you can be reasonably certain that most Black Americans see you as equal. (Admittedly, there has been a different perception of Africans in generations gone by but that would need to be a whole other thread about why we hold "white" up as the holy grail of racial purity.)
There are exceptions of course. My college roommate was from Brooklyn and she had a bias and a racial slur for everyone from every country it seemed including of course, Jamaica. Her way of thinking is the exception not the rule as the majority of Black Americans did not grow up in and do not live in multicultural metro areas such as NYC or Miami so we have very few country-specific biases..
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