Sunday, June 20, 2010
Homework - June 19
So, we decided in class to discuss the vuvuzela controversy at the World Cup in South Africa. Please read this article about them and then post your opinion. According to many of the African soccer fans, the vuvuzelas are a huge part of soccer culture in Africa, but many fans (from other countries and continents), players, and coaches have complained about the noise they create. Do you think these horns should be banned?
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Vuvuzela is African traditional instrument? I don't think so. The device was made of plastic and it can not be traditional sound.
ReplyDeleteAs I know, today's high performing recording skills can eliminate nosies and extract specific sound. But the vuvuzela exceeded the high technology. We cannot hear the anouncement and commentator's voices from the playground. For over billions people who can participate the world cup games with TV, certain regulation would be needed.
Jin,
ReplyDeleteI wasn't stating that vuvuzelas are a traditional instrument in Africa, just that they are a big part of soccer matches in South Africa. Their origin is actually from Mexico (the 1970's), but have been used in South Africa since the 1990's.
Sorry Jeff. It's my mistake. May I heard on TV. I hope so much Korean team to win the last game(the last game for primary round) and think the vuvuzela would disturbe our support for Korean team.
ReplyDeleteWhen we lose a game, we used to try to find out something to excuse our failure. In this time I want Korean national team to go to next round even in the ill circumstance where all Africans would support Nigeria with noisy vuvuzela.
And thank you Jeff for your kind explaination and video.
Thanks for being an ever-present "poster" on our blog Jin. I hope the video was helpful for SH.
ReplyDeleteWorldcup supporters also use vuvuzelas for their different supporting teams when they cheer, not only use by African's matches or exclusive cheering for African teams. However their noisy sound might bother but we should accept it as their cheering culture. ---wrote by Jenna^^
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'm asking too much but we are all students who want to improve English skils. Could you correct when we have mistakes?
ReplyDelete--Jenna
I most certainly will do my best to correct all mistakes.
ReplyDeleteHi, Jeff.
ReplyDeleteSorry for not participating here for a long time.
From now on, I'll do my best to do homework. ^^;
Anyway, in my small opinion, I don't think these horns should be banned. But, at least, people, who are using the vuvuzelas, need to think about players, because it might affect a lot to the players, coaches and others.
On the one hand, using vuvuzelas is common, and the sound is familiar for the South Africans, although it might not sound good or comfortable for the others.
On the other hand, they (I'd like to call "vuvuzelers"^.^;) are free to use any kinds of instruments. Of course, the instruments must not hurt anybody.
So, let's think about the 2002 World Cup. When there were games with Korea and others, the Red-Devil-members and people used many instruments, such as drums, sticks, toilet rolls, sort of fireworks, etc. However, these things were not banned.
Using vuvuzelars is just only different way to cheer and support players. And in my another small opinion, hearing the sound of vuvuzelars could be a challenge for players to overcome !!!
I know they(players) have THE ability. And if they have troubles or make some mistakes, I don't think they are professional, because they must focus on the game, not the sound. ^^; When people are doing something really seriously, normally they are not able to listen to other things.(Don't you think so? ^^;;; or just me??)
So, these are my opinions, Jeff and others.
What do you think about this.?
--- by Libero