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Originally Posted by ma_o_mati
I wouldn't go as far as calling it self loathing but just accepting the truth. It has nothing to institutional education. Lot of our educated folks lack severely when it comes to manner and courtesy. Years of being subjugated and poverty, our behavior is reflected by our rough nature. When a system of an entire country is broken from up to bottom, you can't expect proper sportsmanship from the crowd. When our country changes, everything else will too.
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I tend to agree with your observation. General courtesy and manner has a direct correlation with the economic well being of a nation when it comes to cricket ( in soccer or american football, the economic standing does not really matter; everybody hates oppostion0. There are always individual exception to the norm, but if we look at a society level, the above will hold true. Crowds that are most appreciative of the opponent are in developed nations like Australia, England or New Zealand. Spectators in countries like India, Srilanka or Bangladesh seem be less appreciative.
Day to day life is extremely hard for average Bangladeshi folk, traffic jam for hours, political unrest, red tape in any government institution (WASA, DESA or T&T) and corrupt police. Even the cricket team is unreliable and have a long history of failure and defeat, the momentary sense of happiness comes from those rare wins. So encouraging opposition does not come naturally.
In fact we find the same trend in general day to day interaction with people across the world:
Developed Nations- Japanese, Canadian, European- on average people are very friendly in the streets. From holding the door to mentioning thanks and welcome...[ of course they have rude people as well, but talking about general trend]
Middle Income Country- People in Turkey and Malaysia are courteous but not to the level of Japanese or Canadian. [again there are exceptions, some Malaysians could be much nicer than above nations]
Lower Income nation- Bangladesh, India. People in the streets in general are indifferent and are busy with their own life. They do have the tendency to be overly nice to people with European decent, but not sure what factors into that.