Commonwealth = sharing same wealth?

Gazelle SG

What is the meaning of having Commonwealth game? A celebration for the British empire?

Antigua and Barbuda
Jamaica
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Australia
Kenya
Samoa
The Bahamas
Kiribati
Seychelles
Bangladesh
Lesotho
Sierra Leone
Barbados
Malawi
Singapore
Belize
Malaysia
Solomon Islands
Botswana
Maldives
South Africa
Brunei Darussalam
Malta
Sri Lanka
Cameroon
Mauritius
Swaziland
Canada
Mozambique
Tonga
Cyprus
Namibia
Trinidad and Tobago
Dominica
Nauru*
Tuvalu
Fiji Islands
New Zealand
Uganda
The Gambia
Nigeria
United Kingdom
Ghana
Pakistan
United Republic of Tanzania
Grenada
Papua New Guinea
Vanuatu
Guyana
St Kitts and Nevis
Zambia
India
St Lucia

mhcampboy SG

It goes back a long way when all the countires listed is under the British Empire. So the game set to mean of increasing the goodwill and good understanding of the Empire. Iguess when each country got independent…. they still carry on the tradition of the games.

euphratis SG

When the Brit rules... all about the queen, to the queen... taxes from the queen. Common wealth.

French have their own little such thing where formal country colonized by French are given some privileges.

contact1 SG

my foot...

at least they will help to defend yr country if u r attacked

Gazelle SG

e.g.?

MobyDog SG

Funny.. that's what came into my mind when I was watching the Games finale on TV Yesterday. The British Queen was mentioned afew times, especially, the part towards the end where the aristocrate looking chief of the community spoke something like " I summon the Commonwealth members to India" Shocked .