Topic: American Football
Source: Its Super Bowl Sunday, the onetime of the year where
you can just about guarantee that the majority of your friends will be sitting
in front of a T.V.
Relation: This week’s lesson was about the dilemmas of development
and how it can affect cultures in major ways
Description: While watching the game someone brought up how
everyone becomes a fan for whichever team makes it to the Super Bowl just so
they can say that they supported the winning team, even though come next year
the majority of the people who supported the winning team will go to supporting
only whoever makes it to the Super Bowl. This discussion turned to politics and
how people will only support whoever happens to be popular at the time of a
major election (eg. Presidential). This discussion slow morphed towards how
projects are only popular as long as they don’t affect the individual who is
supporting the project. (eg. The building of a bypass over someone’s home)
Analysis: This relates to our subject matter in many ways. Mainly
pointing out that many people will not support causes that affect them on a
personal level. They will however support a cause that affects other people but
will benefit them the most. However should a cause affect them personally they
will do one of two things. 1. They will say that everything is working against
them but will not do anything to help fight the situation, they will expect
someone else to take up the banner to fight for them. Or 2. Fight back with
everything they have but still lose and end up dejected and broke on the side
of the road.
How does this relate to football? Think about it, you support
a team because they make it to the superbowl, but then they lose. Do you ever
admit that a team that you started to follow because they were doing well lost,
or do you ignore the problem and hope it goes away. ..
Me? Oh I support the same team no matter what, never mind
they haven’t been to the super bowl in my life time.
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