Sunday, October 30, 2011
Soccer Explaining Globalization
In the excerpt from “How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization” written by Franklin Foer he tries to prove that globalization can be shown through soccer. He begins discussing the rising number of kids in the United States participating in soccer as opposed to other sports. He then relates the popularity of soccer global in comparison to football and baseball. He then ventures off about jerseys, traveling and the American culture. I believe he did a poor job proving his point. I agree with what he had to say but nothing he said convinced me of the opinion. Soccer, like any other industry that is international can model globalization. If there is a high demand for the product globally it could be defended as a parallel. For example fast food companies or clothing store. Just because soccer’s popularity is currently growing, I could see why the author choose to use this example over others. But it is barely better than others in my opinion.
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I agree with your statment about how although soccer is quickly expanding, he could have used a better example to illustrate his point of globalization.It was somewhat difficult to understand what he was saying.
ReplyDeleteYou make a good point in that he could have defended anything that has a high demand, and I also agree that he could have picked a better example. His randomness with jerseys and traveling made his argument a little far-fetched.
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