I think next time I'll give you the last paragraph and the number of turns, and see if anyone can come close to completing the column.
That seems way too hard, but I will give you that first line:
The hairstyle known as the Manchurian queue is often called a “pigtail.”
and the last line:
There is no way to prove whether a financial crisis influences a nation’s standing in football but it makes sense that we were reminded of the PIGS as we watched the listless Greek players roll around the field Saturday night.
And see if you can link the two by using 467 words and somehow incorporating China, Hitler, and racial minorities.
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I thought a better indicator is the number of national team players playing on Premier League teams in the EU. Does China have any?! Although, admittedly, one problem with this theory is the DPRK team qualifying for the WC. OTOH, It's performance against Brazil seems to bear that theory out.
They had a similar article yesterday. It seems to be bash Greece month. Greece counts as an advanced country but Korea doesn't, or at least the writer has an inferiority complex. Korea beats Greece in the world cup so now Korea should be upgraded.
He looks mighty smug in the mugshot too
What I notice is CCTV9 (China Central TV) uses foreign presenters for its newscast. These English Korea dailies need to hire some foreigners to write in English.
It's almost as bad as my Embassy:)
@joji1909:
It's a very convoluted way to argue, but I agree with this interpretation. But, I hhink it's more pushback about the cultural influence of WC. It's easy to bash the Super Bowl or World Series for being bloated spectacles or less than global, but World Cup is the one western corporate product even progressives rarely touch. I think the author is being bitchy about China's victimhood - blah blah. But, he's also ridiculing the West's product for not including the world's premier economies. If anything, though, it reinforces not the new man status of China, but how xenophobic China still is. At least South Korea has players on western teams. China is only global when it comes to foreigners leaving money in China.
Another fine example of the fine Korean winning ethic of gloating.
Wow Hoh Kui-seek sure is diplomatic. Didn't the Spanish family who owned the rights to the Korean national anthem donate the rights to Korea? Nice he calls them PIGS.
These nations are in debt because they extended too much charity to their people (ie social welfare).
Too bad South Korea can grant no charity in victory or to its own people in terms care for the least vulnerable members of society. Let's compare, oh, child accident mortality in South Korea to child accident mortality in Greece.
His blathering about racial minority is pretty 19th century. Korea really needs to stop thinking of itself as a nation of victims. Korea is the short man complex on a national scale.
And sure China today might suck at soccer but last time I checked China could put rockets in orbit. It could put humans in orbit. It doesn't have to pay Russians to ferry its people up into space.
I'll take a vibrant space program which has massive spin off benefits vs a chance to get drunk and have sex on the hood of a car.
And if Hoh Kui-seek thinks China can't dominate soccer in Asia if it really gave a rat's ass, Hoh Kui-seek needs to put down the soju bottle.
http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/repcard2e.pdf
FYI:
Greece is near the bottom in child accident mortality 7.6 per 100,000. Korea is right at the top with 25.8 per 100,000.
Hi, Brian. I'm an Asian, my name is Gracie, from somewhere in South Asia. I'm a regular visitor here but never make any comment before. I really need to make a comment here this time.
I can see what Hoh Kui Seek had in mind! Just because South Korea won the match, he thinks he can write anything to degrade other countries like China or India or even Greece.
Really, I think HKS and South Korean should learn how to be a real winner. He should remember when he called this Greece team as pigs, he made South Korea victory worthless. Yeah, because they won over pigs!
He should remember that this bad attitude will make their lost hard and painful. I hope Argentina and Nigeria will defeat them badly.
I'm sorry for my bad english. Thanks. :)
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