Monday, October 30, 2006

Baseball

Taiwanese people like baseball a lot better than any other sports. I do not know the reasons why they like it so much. If there is a competition about softball, every newspaper will make headlines about it and every channel of television will show it, too. . Moreover, every people will give their supports for it. It was ever happened during the last World Cup of Football. Most of Taiwanese did not care about the competition. There are no crowded of people watching together or even talking about the games. Do not ever hope that Taiwanese will give their supports to one of the football teams in the world, although they are very famous. They favourite player is Wang. He is the most famous softball player in Taiwan. If you ask to Taiwanese people, they really recognize this guy, including the kids. Unlike Indonesia, most of Indonesian people likes soccer a lot. You can meet people- kids, adult or old people- play soccer everywhere and everyplace. This game was taught to them since they were very young. It is very common if you meet very little kids play this game in front of or sometimes inside their house. Perhaps, we could analyze why people like this game so much. First, this game was from the previous collonial (Dutch and England) that came to Indonesian many years ago and made it popular until now. Second, Indonesia is very large. It is easy to find a field or a large area to play since when people play soccers, they need a large space to play. Third, Indonesia has a lot of population. A team in a soccer game will need at least eleven persons to play. So, if there are two teams to play, at least there should be 22 persons to play. In Taiwan, it is very difficult to find a field or a yard, even in someone's house. So, it is really difficult for kids or adult to play soccer. If they want to play on the street, it is not easy, either, since the street here are crowded with many vehicles.

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