“Bullfighting has some of the elements of a sport or contest, and in the United States most people think of it as a sport, an unfair sport. If you're in Spain or Mexico it's absolutely not a sport; it's not thought of as a sport and it's not written about as a sport. It has elements of public spectacle, but then so does, for example, the Super Bowl. It has elements of a deeply entrenched, deeply conservative tradition, a tradition that resists change, as you pointed out.” PeopleIfsThinkingDoeStatesSportsUnitedUnited StatesWrittenExampleElementsTraditionConservativeMexicoBowlsUnfairContestsSpainSuper BowlBullfighting Author:Bette Ford
“It's almost impossible to imagine bullfighting abolished from Spain entirely. Values do change, though.” ValuesImagineImpossibleSpainBullfighting Author:Bette Ford
“One of the things I've been thinking about lately is how the change in values makes the survival of the old values, where they do survive, all the more striking. There are pockets of the old bullfighting world that exist more or less intact, both in Spain and elsewhere.” ThinkingWorldValuesSurvivalPocketsElsewhereSpainBullfightingOld Values Author:Bette Ford
