famousringo on 01 February 2010
Had the torch come through my town a few weeks back. Apparently there were protesters decrying the games as a tool of colonialism.
I don't get it. I understand the Olympics as a symbol of humanity, peace, sportsmanship, or orgiastic capitalist excess, but what is the basis behind the idea of colonialism? Rich countries importing athletes from poorer countries, maybe. Does anybody get this?
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