“poofter: someone who likes music more than football therefore must be beaten up.”
Does that apply only to certain genres of music? In my home town, rock musicians are very popular (at least in the rock music subculture, which comprises a sizeable fraction of the teenage and twentysomething population anyway); so are deejays in the disco music subculture. Hell, even people who sing karaoke and are good at it are usually seen as cool. I’m very surprised there’s a culturally western country where musicians are unpopular—unless it only applies to classical music or something.
EDIT: the “spectator sports” bit in Ritalin’s comment makes me guess you meant ‘likes listening to music more than watching football’, rather than ‘likes playing music more than playing football’ as I had interpreted it at first. I would be a little less surprised if this is right, but still somewhat surprised.
The whole point of spectator-sports is to roleplay war-of-the-tribes. You can’t do that as easily with music; even a music battle requires cooperation and harmony on some level, otherwise it’s a cacophony.
Jokes aside, I think you’re talking about a different side of the evolutionary-cognitive boundary than I was. (It seems very unlikely that what you say affects Australians differently from other people.)
Does that apply only to certain genres of music? In my home town, rock musicians are very popular (at least in the rock music subculture, which comprises a sizeable fraction of the teenage and twentysomething population anyway); so are deejays in the disco music subculture. Hell, even people who sing karaoke and are good at it are usually seen as cool. I’m very surprised there’s a culturally western country where musicians are unpopular—unless it only applies to classical music or something.
EDIT: the “spectator sports” bit in Ritalin’s comment makes me guess you meant ‘likes listening to music more than watching football’, rather than ‘likes playing music more than playing football’ as I had interpreted it at first. I would be a little less surprised if this is right, but still somewhat surprised.
The whole point of spectator-sports is to roleplay war-of-the-tribes. You can’t do that as easily with music; even a music battle requires cooperation and harmony on some level, otherwise it’s a cacophony.
Er… have you heard the lyrics to certain metal songs?
Jokes aside, I think you’re talking about a different side of the evolutionary-cognitive boundary than I was. (It seems very unlikely that what you say affects Australians differently from other people.)