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Do you feel the same way about when Americans claim baseball is the national pastime or say "As American as apple pie".
by WesternStar 5y ago
Do you feel the same way about when Americans claim baseball is the national pastime or say "As American as apple pie".
- mpalmer 5y agoDo you feel differently? Why be oblique if you have a constructive point to make?
- retsibsi 5y agoNon-American here, but I'd say yes on the apple pie, no on the baseball. I'm used to multiple countries sharing a 'national sport' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_sport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_sport) so it doesn't seem like a claim about baseball being uniquely American, so much as Americans being really into baseball. Also the sport really was developed in the US and then exported, so I think they have the right to claim some kind of spiritual ownership if they want to. edit: looks like that last point applies in the case of African-Americans and spades, too