Bias In The Movie Pelada

Pelada is a self-documented sports film about a young couple who go off on a journey around the world in search of pick-up games. The main characters are Luke and his girlfriend Gwendolyn and the movie is their trip around the world playing in soccer pick-up games. Luke and Gwen met and started dating in college where they both played soccer. The couple had started playing the sport when they were young and continued to play throughout high school and college, but when it came time to go to the next level the pro teams did not want them. Crushed from being rejected to continue their lifelong dream of playing in a stadium filled with thousands of people the couple started looking into other future plans. Luke decided to go to law school and Gwen started writing a book. They both still played soccer together when and wherever they could but it was not enough for the pair who were used to playing the game at a completive level.
The couple then decided to put their new life
Before arriving in China, Luke says he does not expect the Chinese to be good at soccer because the country’s pro soccer team only made it into the World Cup once and lost near the beginning. Luke expects to be able to out play and out maneuver the Chinese but when the couple arrives in China Luke gets a surprise. The men they meet up with play soccer in little parks and in small public areas which require them to have lots of ball control. Luke discovers quickly that the Chinese that he thought would not be any good at soccer are actually better than him in terms of control and foot skills. Luke says he has never been more uncomfortable around a soccer ball as he was while in China. Luke is experiencing in-group bias when he identifies himself with the U.S. pro soccer players and sees all the Chinese as being equal to their pro soccer