{"id":10568,"date":"2010-07-18T09:08:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T16:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=10568"},"modified":"2010-07-18T09:08:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T16:08:56","slug":"on-the-iroquois-lacrosse-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=10568","title":{"rendered":"On the Iroquois Lacrosse Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard (I hadn&#8217;t until Friday), the Iroquois lacrosse team <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racialicious.com\/2010\/07\/14\/links-for-2010-07-14\/\">has been<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/17\/sports\/17lacrosse.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1&amp;sq=Iriquois%20passport&amp;st=cse&amp;scp=1\">barred<\/a> from competing in the lacrosse world championship because the British government won&#8217;t accept their passports, which lack necessary security features.  There&#8217;s a lot to unpack here, but I&#8217;ll just say two quick things and let you all discuss the rest in comments.<\/p>\n<p>First off, in a world in which imperialism and colonialism lead to terrorism leads to heightened security, only wealthy and &#8220;acceptable&#8221; nations will enjoy reasonably unrestricted travel to and from their home countries (see article 13 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights#Human_rights_set_out_in_the_Declaration\">Universal Declaration of Human Rights<\/a>).  See also the problem with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazamom.com\/2009\/04\/i-was-born-palestinian\/\">Palestinian passports.<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nSecondly, as various news outlets have pointed out, the Iroquois created the sport that they are now barred from playing.  Their sport is considered worthy of a world championship, but they themselves are not worthy of playing it &#8211; otherwise, the British government would be sympathetic enough to their situation to work toward a solution.  I know this issue is complex, but could this be considered a form of cultural appropriation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard (I hadn&#8217;t until Friday), the Iroquois lacrosse team has been barred from competing in the lacrosse world championship because the British government won&#8217;t accept their passports, which lack necessary security features. There&#8217;s a lot to unpack &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=10568\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}