The Commonwelth Games are an Olympic-like festival of sports, but with only 68 countries taking part, 4 of which form the United Kingdom, 3 of which are islands of England (Guernsey, Isle of Man) & 6 are non-nations like Bermuda, Hong Kong & the Cayman Islands.
The event attracts 98% of the TV audience size in the UK, Ireland, Malaysia, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, Pakistan, .... that the Olympics do. I believe there are similar Games for other former Empires too. The Commonwelath is also a friendship & cooperation society for economic, social, cultural and political matters. Do you think the US should A have a festival of US states' teams to match this, B join the Commonwealth, C, ignore the whole thing, or D allow individual US states to join the Commonwelath & submit individual teams if their governors & legislators so choose?
2007-03-01
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