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How do China and India never qualify for the World Cup? (lemmy.today)
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[–] 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

People do actually care about the World Cup in India, one of my friends’s parents are from India and they specifically mention that’s one of the things they remembered watching on TV in India growing up. It’s not a big political thing like India vs Pakistan cricket because Pakistan generally also doesn’t qualify for the World Cup lmao and people just vaguely root for Argentina Mexico or any other team that does well

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  • [+] -27 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I still don't know what world cup you talk about but I believe you that one family in former England colony did care for their master's events. Does it have a cultural meaning now for most of the Indians? I doubt that, which can explain the topic here. I mean caring is the first step to make good athletes and China does pretty well in the Olympics. India not so much but I think they're going to get better in the future.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    People can both like soccer and dislike the british? What are Indians banned from being doctor who or rail fans now? Cricket is like the most popular international sport in India and English is the closest thing to a truly univeral language in India (most people in south India don't know Hindi). Turns out when the UK invades your country you get to keep the things they leave behind that you like lol

    I would argue that the british are responsible for the modern idea of an Indian state in the first place by invading the entire thing and giving everyone there a common enemy by treating everyone living there so atrociously. India would probably be like 3 or 4 smaller countries if the british hadn't forced them to unify for better or for worse

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