OK, I know that globalization has some very real negative consequences on some people who can ill-afford to suffer them. But let me just point out another downside of globalization: all that damn flopping in the NBA. Anyone who watched last year’s World Cup soccer match will recognize Manu Ginobili’s technique, for example — BAM, as if taking a close-range shotgun blast. All that’s lacking are the stretchers.
Worse, blue-blooded American boys have recognized the incentive to play along and are doing the same thing, with no apparent pride whatsoever.
Give us back our game.
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