There seems to be an assumption in this article that the baseline "normal" behavior is to be interested in sports.
Where I grew up (the rural South) sports is huge and the default topic of conversation. I always felt that there was something wrong with me because I wasn't that interested.
Then as an adult I moved to Vietnam, where people are only occasionally interested in football(soccer) and that's pretty much it. By default people don't care about sports. If took soccer fanatic and dropped them here, I think their behavior would be perceived as pretty peculiar.
So to me this article is:
"You should agree my cultural assumptions because that is normal baseline human behavior and if you don't then you are deliberately being a jerk."
Where I grew up (the rural South) sports is huge and the default topic of conversation. I always felt that there was something wrong with me because I wasn't that interested.
Then as an adult I moved to Vietnam, where people are only occasionally interested in football(soccer) and that's pretty much it. By default people don't care about sports. If took soccer fanatic and dropped them here, I think their behavior would be perceived as pretty peculiar.
So to me this article is:
"You should agree my cultural assumptions because that is normal baseline human behavior and if you don't then you are deliberately being a jerk."
Which is pretty silly.
Just like what you like and don't worry about it.