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Rugby World Cup 2015
[2015 RWC] Semi Final 2: Australia vs. Argentina (25/10/2015)
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<blockquote data-quote="Horacito" data-source="post: 764045" data-attributes="member: 71745"><p>Listen, I would love rugby to become a national sport, but with the right attitude. </p><p></p><p>First of all, rugby is a closed circle, not an elite. Rugby is not an sport of rich people, but a sport of the middle class in a country in which middle class used to be strong and important. </p><p></p><p>That middle class, today, does not exist, or is almost gone. It was the middle class who send kids to study liberal careers (architects, lawyers, doctors, engineers) and had a certain proud on their cultural levels. Today, I wouldn't call it dead completely, but is in more than serious danger of exctintion. </p><p></p><p>What happens is that in over 50 years argentinian society has fallen so deep, today there is rich people or poor people, and those poor folks hate the rich folks even if between them the difference is almost null: they have the same tastes and almost the same culture, some of them happen to have the money. You can see this in the evolution of the players at pumas by yourself. </p><p></p><p>So, what I mean: rugby will never become any kind of conduct to democratize any kind of value, because mass phenomenons (if rugby ever becomes that) who affect society in those subtle and profound ways do not work like that. It's a nice dream, but it's just not truth. </p><p>So, being humble about the properties and importance of this child game we really like (it's a child's game after all), I would rather have the less contamination of all those bad things being an argentinian social phenomenom carries. That simple.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horacito, post: 764045, member: 71745"] Listen, I would love rugby to become a national sport, but with the right attitude. First of all, rugby is a closed circle, not an elite. Rugby is not an sport of rich people, but a sport of the middle class in a country in which middle class used to be strong and important. That middle class, today, does not exist, or is almost gone. It was the middle class who send kids to study liberal careers (architects, lawyers, doctors, engineers) and had a certain proud on their cultural levels. Today, I wouldn't call it dead completely, but is in more than serious danger of exctintion. What happens is that in over 50 years argentinian society has fallen so deep, today there is rich people or poor people, and those poor folks hate the rich folks even if between them the difference is almost null: they have the same tastes and almost the same culture, some of them happen to have the money. You can see this in the evolution of the players at pumas by yourself. So, what I mean: rugby will never become any kind of conduct to democratize any kind of value, because mass phenomenons (if rugby ever becomes that) who affect society in those subtle and profound ways do not work like that. It's a nice dream, but it's just not truth. So, being humble about the properties and importance of this child game we really like (it's a child's game after all), I would rather have the less contamination of all those bad things being an argentinian social phenomenom carries. That simple. [/QUOTE]
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