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By Chris | August 15, 2008
I am sure by now that everyone has heard about Spain’s NBA team doing the squinty-eyed photo seen around the world. In the article I linked to, Jason Kidd makes some very valid, and of course, totally true points about what would have happened if this was not Spain that did this, but the United States.
“We would’ve been already thrown out of the Olympics,” he told Yahoo! Sports. “At least, we wouldn’t have been able to come back to the U.S. …There would be suspensions.”
And for his European peers, well, Kidd suggested, “They won’t do anything to them. It’s a double standard.”
Interesting how we’re held to a higher standard, perhaps - yet we’re also the world’s favorite country to hate. So why hold us to a standard that you yourselves cannot and will not be held to, and then look down their collective noses at us?
I won’t get into the rest of the article, as I won’t even pretend to say that I even know the first thing about the NBA or basketball, and I will admit I’ve watched very little of the Olympics at all this year, reason being is I really could care less about either. I only picked up this tidbit of news because the double standard just gets to me.
Really, I think it boils down to jealousy. The world is jealous of the United States. The world also loves to hate us. Sort of like when the popular HS Cheerleader gets knocked up, it’s the talk of the lunchroom and she becomes the butt of jokes. But when some marching band member suffers the same fate it’s not important. Those who are jealous of the cheerleader revel in her misfortune and she suffers the consequences. Always out to get those who have the spotlight on them is what it likely boils down to.
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