A whole cast of pop stars are created and glamorized. People are led to believe that they should care who these people are dating, how much money they made last year, who cuts their hair, what kind of clothes they wear and who they are sleeping with. Trends are created to be followed in every aspect of the culture from music to clothes to cars. But I think one of the biggest diversion in this culture is sports. People bedeck themselves from head to toe with sports clothes, team names cover every inch of their bodies.
People spend tons of money on sports.
They take pride in what teams they like. There is a section of the newspaper dedicated to this one diversion, and a segment on the news too. People know all the players, their statistics and little bits of even more minute trivia. They talk about it at length with their friends, sometimes its all they talk about. Its a diversion.