It's a good question.When will an Asian footballer play for England? - BBC Three
Interesting question from the BBC. I’ve never been able to work out why more British players of Asian heritage don’t play professionally let alone for England. With the exception of one friend of Indian heritage every Asian I know is football mad and many of them played grass roots football when younger. When you consider that they arrived in large numbers at the same time as other ethnic groups from the commonwealth after the war you would have thought that Asian players would have been coming into the game at the same time as black players but it’s never happened. As someone who celebrates diversity I’d love to see a British Asian player pull on an England shirt.
When will an Asian footballer play for England? - BBC Three
Interesting question from the BBC. I’ve never been able to work out why more British players of Asian heritage don’t play professionally let alone for England. With the exception of one friend of Indian heritage every Asian I know is football mad and many of them played grass roots football when younger. When you consider that they arrived in large numbers at the same time as other ethnic groups from the commonwealth after the war you would have thought that Asian players would have been coming into the game at the same time as black players but it’s never happened. As someone who celebrates diversity I’d love to see a British Asian player pull on an England shirt.
You could say the same thing about athletics, look at our male and female sprinters, all black no Asians.
And why are there so few black or Asian cyclists? And when did you last see a black or Asian F1 driver?
Lewis Hamilton?
Is it also cultural?
I used to play in a team with a fair few Indian lads, think there was about 6 or 7 all together. A couple of them were pretty decent but it was like they grew out of football, just didn't seem that arsed at all when they got a bit older and hardly turned up.
You could say the same thing about athletics, look at our male and female sprinters, all black no Asians.
And why are there so few black or Asian cyclists? And when did you last see a black or Asian F1 driver?
With athletics it's genetics. It's no coincidence that the 100m Olympic final is contested by 8 black guys and the 100m swimming final by 8 white guys. Celebrate the differences rather than pretend we're all built the the same and that a particular race is under represented.
With football I think it's more cultural and as someone said higher up, concentrating on studies. I think that stems from a generational thing though from the elders and the next generation it will change as they've become more westernised and lazy like the rest of us
He's mixed race. His mother is white (British) and his father black. I don't know his father's background but in photos he looks to be from the Caribbean, so he's zero percent Asian. Motor racing is one of those sports where race really shouldn't make a difference since all you are doing is sitting in a seat controlling a vehicle.Lewis Hamilton?
He's mixed race. His mother is white (British) and his father black. I don't know his father's background but in photos he looks to be from the Caribbean, so he's zero percent Asian. Motor racing is one of those sports where race really shouldn't make a difference since all you are doing is sitting in a seat controlling a vehicle.
You’re definitely right on sprinting. I can’t ever imagine a white athlete breaking the 100m world record again and apparently it’s down to snatch muscle. Which is a type of muscle that all people have but black people by way of genetics naturally have more, which in turn makes them better sprinters. Especially over the shorter sprint distances.
I think swimming is down to cultural and dare I say it class differences. Swimming tends to be something middleclass white kids do. At the last Olympics a black Dutch female swimmer won a gold and set a new WR too if I remember correctly and she basically said the same thing. Seen it in golf, tennis and motorsport too and as old barriers are being broken down black athletes are rising to the top in all. Something to be celebrated.
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