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Is "reside in" the same as being Americans? If I move to India, will I immediately be an Indian who loves American sports?
Most American children of East or South Asian descent aren't allowed to play sports as kids, because their parents heavily emphasize academic pursuits. I'd wager that they're nearly as ignorant of cricket as the rest of us.
Is "reside in" the same as being Americans?
Yes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Americans
If I move to India, will I immediately be an Indian who loves American sports?
I'm pretty sure Indians don't leave their roots so easily. I'm not sure about you though. ;)
I don't think that Children of South East Asia are ignorant of Cricket just by not playing it. It's something that's in the cultural roots and is transferred automatically by their parents.
Even here in India parents normally emphasise on academic pursuits but everyone knows about cricket and loves/enjoys to watch at least the bigger games if not all.
From my experience in Canada basketball is the most popular sport amongst Indian youth. Especially in Toronto area because of the Raptors. They also like baseball because of the Blue Jays but NBA is #1. I am sure they are all familiar with cricket though from their parents watching.
Thanks. @Undisciplined you should now accept that Cricket is bigger than Baseball and 🏈 together.
I can see a decaying interest among US audience for Baseball and American Football. I can just tell you that Cricket and Soccer will be bigger than both of them very soon.
Not NFL but definitely baseball. Baseball is a very regional game now. It doesn't have national appeal. Markets that have teams and love their teams follow passionately but people don't watch if their team isn't involved, which is too bad. Hence the push to grow the international fanbase as baseball is very popular still in Latin America, Japan and Korea.
I like cricket but soccer is such a bad sport. It is a real shame that billions around the world have been indoctrinated into following that game. Something to be said for low barrier to entry. I think that's why basketball has grown so much. Ball and a hoop and you are good to go.
I kinda agree with you. I too don't like Soccer that much and after watching NBA games recently, I can say that it's a better game to watch.
However as Soccer brings legs into play than any other sports, I can't see it'll face a challenge to its top rank as team sports.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: It's our birthright as Americans to not care what foreigners think about anything.
And you know what our birthright is? It's simply tell the truth to Americans on their faces.
Good luck with that
I'm telling you, all of the Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean kids I grew up with were complete nerds who knew nothing of sports.
Alright. Now when you meet an Indian American ask him about his interest in Cricket and then comeback to tell me I was wrong.
Will do
You can add some more millions of people from Cricket playing nations. Won't that be more than 10%? The world cup was organised in the US because of the cricket fans residing there not because Cricket needs US. Cricket is already the second most popular game in the world. Talking about riches, UPL alone generates $6-7 bilion in revenue and is valued more than $12 billion. If you add to it all the Cricket leagues happening accross the globe, Cricket Leagues surpass any of US based sports. If you add to it the international games, Cricket is much much ahead of all of the US based sports like baseball or American
Foothandball.Be envious but an IPL match is watched by 100s of millions and the record numbers for an International game came in the 2011 ICC Men’s World Cup Final when 558 million global viewers turned in.