Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Xenophobic LPGA?

So the Ladies Professional Golf Association decided that all its members learn English or they will not be allowed to play on their tour. First I thought, this is the most ridiculous rule I have ever heard in any American sport, something that goes against the tolerance the U.S. claims to have. The LPGA claims that there are so many foreigners, specially Koreans, that do not speak English and the tour is losing sponsors. Yao Ming from China didn't speak any English when he first joined the NBA, and some professional baseball teams have more Dominicans on their roster than they have Americans, some of them can barely say a word in English, but I don't see them losing any sponsors. I can understand why an American Association would want to keep English as its main language, yet I can't stop thinking that this is another sign of a competitive world where economic standards are higher than ever and people in other countries are receiving the same opportunities as the ones only America and a handful of countries used to have, and in order to maintain a certain degree of supremacy, absurd rules have to apply. What seems to fly under the radar is that desicions like this one could send the LPGA on a downward spiral to self destruction. The question remains under the stupid vail of political correctness, who's the xenophobic? The LPGA, the sponsors or the people of the U.S.A?

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I haven't written here in a long time. Maybe because I am too busy trying to cope with the fast pace of my everyday life, or maybe because my native language is Spanish and I prefer, as you would do, to write in the language that I know best, yet sometimes I find myself unable to express what I need to say using my own language, so I borrow yours. Then I come here, and with so many things speeding inside my head all day, I open my blog and I can't follow a single story worth writing. Yet I write anyway, because I can't live without it, and since I am what you would call quiet, not shy, shy is reserved for some kind of mild fear, I find writing an amusing relief, to the point where I am currently writing a book, slow, turtle slow, but I promise I will one day finish it, and then translate it so you can love it or hate it, whatever you please. I won't hold it against you. Now I should go to sleep, because being tired makes you stupid, just like being drunk, but without the fun. Not sure if I'm making any sense here so I better go before you hate me. Cheers!