English: The New White
Fuck.
When did this country become so full of bigots? I was pretty sure I moved out of the United States after a run of 5 years to specifically avoid the type of shit I’m seeing in this poll on the front of Yahoo Canada.
The question is “What do you think of golf’s ‘English only’ rule?” Fifty-four percent of the respondents (so far) have answered that golfers should learn the language. The language of what? Golf? Who decided that English should be the language of golf? Oh, that’s right a bunch of rich, white, English-speaking men. No bias there whatsoever.
I honestly cannot understand the stupidity of this, especially when the PGA and LPGA play several events in countries that don’t even speak English.
That lineup alone makes (Lorie) Kane wonder why English has been made mandatory.
“Right now we have an awful lot of tournaments internationally and a lot of them are in Asia,” she said. “I don’t speak any Asian languages. If we continue to play over there, are they going to require me to speak Korean?”
Lorie Kane is a Canadian on the LPGA tour but she need not worry about speaking Korean. It’s actually really simple; English = Right, Anything Else = Wrong. There would never be a requirement for an English speaker to know a few odd phrases in those “backward” languages.
Could you imagine the fits there would be if players were expected to know a few words in Korean or Spanish before playing in Korea or Mexico? Those same 54% stating that golf players should know English would be complaining about how unfair it was.
Actually scratch all this, maybe we should return to a language of golf. A real Scottish tradition. So when you all feel like learning Gaelic let me know.
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