What Will It Take for Americans to Love Soccer?
Have you seen this commerical? It's cute enough (especially the way these kids say Beckenbauer with a Spanish accent- ha ha ha, these kids don't know German). But I think there's more to it than that.
Note how it subtly addresses the issue of poverty. It squarely puts the blame where it belongs- on the shoulders of those who embrace a culture of poverty. These kids look perfectly employable. Instead of lounging about, whiling away the days of their youth, they should be working. Instead of playing with the ball, they should be in a dank, windowless factory sewing it together.
Speaking of the ball, don't people who choose to spend 130 dollars on a a toy deserve to be poor?
C'mon America, Adidas is reaching out to us- trying to meet us half way. Embrace soccer.
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It is an entertaining commercial, even if I don't understand a word, I get what it's about.
I'm not sure I agree with you about the working bit. That's not very compassionate.
Instead, the compassionate, Christian response, at least according to our local Cardinal, is to insist these kids have opportunity. They should have the opportunity to work for low wages and live in bad conditions after traveling in wretched ways the hundreds or thousands of miles to mow lawns for an upper middle class family while their own children are inside playing FIFA 2006.
That's why we passed child labor laws, isn't it? So we could give opportunities to those in other countries to toil for below minimum wage.
I know one thing for certain, if I ever have kids and their school offers ebilball, they are getting pulled out to be homeschooled.
wait...that commercial has PEOPLE in it?! where?
COMPASSION! What are you talking about? I said it this morning and I'll say it again, "Free markets determine who gets a childhood and what the nature of that childhood is." (I say that every morning.)
There is only so much opportunity and leisure to go around; it can't be distributed according to some unnatural caprice like age or geography. Market forces will tell us who gets what. Nothing is more compassionate then letting those unsuited for survival die so that the rest can have a better life.
Plus, child labor laws were a tool of socialists and commies trying to unnaturally increase wages by shrinking the labor pool.
Oh I forgot to mention it- I think Kool-Aid is a good class marker. Growing up, I had Kool-Aid with sugar in a Tupperware pitcher. My friend, at times on various forms of gov't assistance, had Kool-Aid too, often without sugar, in recycled Sunny Delight bottles. Even though there were differences, we were on the same Kool-Aid spectrum, just at opposite ends.
In a separate group would be friends who had soda- I think two liter bottles versus cans is another dividing line.
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