droughtmeat said:I watch the elite basketball leagues, cause I enjoy watching the best in the game and also play myself. However, I rarely watch full games, since they're time consuming and I'd rather spend the time honing my own skills or working on my physique.
That said, I don't see the your Africans vs our Africans dynamic in basketball.
Of the 4 best teams in the last world championship on France had black players. Spain, Argentina, Australia (one aboriginal) had no black dudes at all.
I do agree that soccer is pushing the narrative that all it takes is citizenship to be a true citizen of a respective country. In my opinion, it's more about sharing the same value system, which unfortunately very often is not the case with immigrants. The values lead to guys like this feeling comfortable and integrated.
Boxers like that get accepted being in a tiny minority and taking in the values. What would happen long-term with a small influx of Africans into Europe? 99% of them would have grandkids who tell stories of how they had a cool black grandfather who was a boxer - not much of a change to the core culture.
In contrast - what happens to a Europe that becomes 30% minority European? It become Haiti, Turkey, Brazil.
So that is why you can like that one African legionnaire or boxer, but have a very different feeling with an 80% African French team - especially when you know that this is just the beginning and in 50-80 years that will be the majority of the country.
And no - it's not proven in the least that France will be fine being 80% Muslim or African - there is nothing in history to show us that this will work. Quite the contrary - we have huge data available telling us that this will end Western civilization and will doom the safe smart prosperous Western countries.
So - in those things scale and strength matter - a few won't matter and can be loved, many however will be death for the West.