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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
I not trying to discuss football per se, I'm just trying to point out that games that are popular in America have to have conclusions, win or lose. This goes back to the cultural need for acheivement. In Europe, the need for acheivement is not the driving force (culturally) that it is in America.
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This seems to tie in with
research into humour that found:
"People from The Republic of Ireland, the UK, Australia and New Zealand expressed a strong preference for jokes involving word plays ....
Americans and Canadians much preferred gags where there was a sense of superiority ...
many European countries, such as France, Denmark and Belgium, liked jokes that were somewhat surreal..."