kikore wrote:
Brian D. wrote:
Tortu's accomplishment is interesting in the fact that only a few whites would consider taking up running as a career sport and when a talented white takes up the sport, especially in Europe where you have so many other pro options such as Futbol, Handball, Volleyball, Tennis, Cycling, Hockey, Basketball, Rugby, etc that it becomes a unique and interesting thing that people want to follow. Also, people around the world follow their own race in many cases. It's just the way everyone is wired. Are you going to go tell gays that they should stop being so closed minded and consider picking up chicks?
I have always looked at these kind of argument with suspicion, because all these sports are not popular everywhere in Europe, and when they are popular they are popular amongst all ethnic group (look at the French handball team). At least in Italy, team handball or hockey are absolutely non existant.
Secondly, being fast is not a prerequisite in many of these sports which are mostly skills driven . The only really universally popular sport in Europe is football, but when you look at the ethnic composition of national teams of European countries who tend to have a large ethnic population, you understand quickly that everybody seems to play this sport.
The English football team is roughly made by 50% of non native englishmen, and the "ethnics" who make half of this team are not Indians or Pakistanis. Even in rugby which is a mostly "White" upper class sport in England (mostly niche outside the British Isles and France), the very same "ethnics" tend to be overrepresented in the speed positions, and despite that when I'm looking at British rankings in short sprints these people, with a relatively limited population in number within Britain tend to be overrepresented again.
Your argument doesnt really make sense. Its apparent what youre trying to do but it doesnt work. The poster is right. There is a ton of different sports in a ton of different nations in Europe. You dont see too many Swiss not dreaming about skiing, cycling, mountain climbing. You dont see too many Swedes not dreaming about hockey, handball, perhaps soccer. French handball team? They are one of the 30 countries in Europe with a team and the only one that focuses on using non- natives. Same for their football team. Englands club is 75% native not 50 but in any case fortunately most of the other national teams are not forced to use other ethnicities and thats why they play better.