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individualism as a novelty. Soccer and ice hockey have for
them, therefore, an exotic and Utopian quality of promise that
they do not convey to the West. This is the quality that we
tend to call “snob value,” and we might derive some similar
“value” from owning race horses, polo ponies, or twelve-metre
yachts.
Games, therefore, can provide many varieties of
satisfaction. Here we are looking at their role as media of
communication in society as a whole. Thus, poker is a game
that has often been cited as the expression of all the complex
attitudes and unspoken values of a competitive society. It calls
for shrewdness, aggression, trickery, and unflattering
appraisals of character. It is said women cannot play poker well
because it stimulates their curiosity, and curiosity is fatal in
poker. Poker is intensely individualist, allowing no place for