That may be true, but you missed my point totally - which is - fans don't want a bunch of foreign golfers who all have similar sounding short names, look alike, and for the most part are robotic. The fans are turned off, and that's my point. As for the competitive aspect, I have no problem with it. Golf is a pure meritstocracy.
A similar argument I suppose could be made for the Kenyans and marathons, though that is a far more extreme example.
“my point totally - which is - fans don’t want a bunch of foreign golfers who all have similar sounding short names, look alike, and for the most part are robotic. The fans are turned off”
Sorry, you are totally wrong.
You meant to say “my point totally - which is - fans don’t want a bunch of ORIENTAL golfers who all have similar sounding short names, look alike, and for the most part are robotic. The fans are turned off”
The fact is the white/european/caucasian americans love watching a bunch of russian women who are equally same looking with last names ending in “ova” who are equally robotic.
The fact is the white/euro-americans did not want to watch the black american Williams sisters win either. Ok, Serena is freakish looking but I find Venus to be perfectly acceptable to look at.
The fact is the white americans loved very robotic Borg, Edberg, Vilas, etc. much more than they liked their own Conners, Sampras, Courier, and Chang.
And I would hardly call the Asian women golfers robotic.
“fans don’t want a bunch of foreign golfers who all have similar sounding short names, look alike, and for the most part are robotic”
“Look alike” - obvisouly no world traveler you
it’s not exactly “racist”, just culturally isolated
if you grew up as a “white” kid in an Asian country, or maybe even just spent a really great amount of continuous time in an Asian country you’d know the “look a like” meme is no more than a lack of familiarity;
even just might 18 months in Korea in the 1960s taught me that much