The four Jamaican bobsledders are separate people with different goals and ways of thinking. (Not that I have any evidence that baseball movies are popular in Cuba or Japan.) There isn't any power-of-positive-thinking psychobabble, either - at least, it doesn't dominate. (Probably even the Swiss, whose bobsled team comes across as more than a trifle arrogant.) Nor is there any of that worship of a particular sport that makes baseball movies so unendurable for people outside of North America, Cuba and Japan. It depends not at all on aggressive nationalism (it couldn't afford to, with a constituency of 2.6 million), and people of all countries are free to participate in the Jamaicans' perfectly reasonable patriotism. (There are only 2.6 million people in Jamaica - so I know you don't account for a large percentage of the English-speaking world.) Hands up all those people with any interest at all in bobsledding.
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