@BenjiFuji:The World Cup is over but there's a lot of interesting cultural information to be gained from the news. For example, western media has been slamming the cloak given to Messi before he collected the World Cup. On the flip side, the alternative news from the gulf has highlighted that that is the highest honour, to be given a clock from the emir of Qatar. Another interesting cultural nuance that I picked up, was the French culture of assimilating everyone into their own. Minorities were not allowed to have their own identity. Assimilated blacks are known to have a French identity but without any minority identity. This is unlike Singapore. On the flip side, Argentinians who were represented by their football squads were largely whites, migrants from Europe. So it was almost a hogepot of