Its a simple argument really, but you havent provided anything to counter it. Surely even in NZ you can understand you play with a different culture and passion to other countries? where do you think that comes from? do you think its just some sort of magic dust that falls on your head? rubbish. its a collection of your countrys history in the sport, history on the battlefield, and their collective suffering.
In South Africa we have a very unique culture of vicitimisation. you cannot deny this. but when the connection is made between this culture and the characteristics of the game, you laugh and joke as if its some kind of ridiculous thing. ask any boertjie what effect the concentration camps have on their families and their identity. ask any darkie what impact apartheid has had. hell, ask any kiwi what effect the anzacs efforts in ww2 has had on the way they live their lives and the WAY THEY PLAY THEIR SPORT, and you will make the connection.
im sorry you guys dont see this. truly. that you reply with sarcasm and accusations of trolling just reinforces the stereotype. 'post of the thread' my black foot.
Let me tell you a wee story,
When i was about 8, my parents took me and my younger brother to Brooklands zoo. I got to see Llamas and parrots and shiz. It was boss.
While we were there, my dad bought us both a "bubble o' bill" ice cream. That was also boss.
While eating my ice cream and watching the monkeys, i saw that some people were able to feed said monkeys. I decided that the monkeys were fairly boss, so deserved better than the lame food the zoo attendants were handing out to feed to them. They deserved icecream. I wanted to eat
my ice cream however, so i decided to just push my brother over, take his ice cream and give it to the monkeys.
Fastforward 10 minutes, plan successfull. A lucky monkey got some icecream, but i am now in trouble with both the zoo keepers and my father for making my brother cry. I was asked simply, "why did you do that?"
Well, being of Maori decent, should be no stranger to the situation of having a more powerful force unfairly take from me. Perhaps i have taken the struggles of my ancestors to heart and was symbolically seeking to show that i am capable of being the other side of that arrangement?
Perhaps i had subliminally decided to take from my brother as a form of education for him. To let him know how cruel the world out there can be without reason, due to the hardship i had internalised since my own Maori childhood.
Perhaps in those monkeys, i somehow saw their captivity as a metaphor for the "captivity" that Maori are living in to this very day, technically free but bound by the rules and regulations of a greater force, unable to make their own decisions and live by their own creed.
Were any of these proposed causes the real reason i did it?
No. I just felt like it, and was acting like a bit of a dick really.
Bakkies Botha headbuts and shoulder charges people. Most probably because he just feels like it and is a little bit of a dick at times.
Stop reading so much into things.
