There are many positive impacts of sport to support nation-building. The four of them are: 1) sport can build understanding, tolerance, and respect; 2) sport has the power to combat discrimination, racism, and human rights abuses; 3) it helps to build relationships across cultures, religions, languages, age, and income; and 4) nationalism between the citizens of the country will be unified.
EXPLANATION:
The main part of building a nation is to create a sense of nationalism. People in a country must feel that they are a part of the same nation and proud to be.
The most likely technique to utilize sports to build a nation is to endorse the national team in several sports that are popular in the country. If a country has a national team that competes with other countries, the government can embolden people to join that team. The citizens can feel proud that they are linked to the team that comes out and win (or come out and compete valiantly against extraordinary opportunities).
Sometimes, this is even possible if the sport has not been popular among all groups in a country. A leading example of this is Nelson Mandela's conduct of the 1995 Rugby World Cup. The apartheid regime in South Africa had just fallen and the country was rather fragile. Rugby was a white people’s sport and had a limited fan among other races. However, Mandela incorporated the national team while playing at the World Cup at home. This helps bring together white and non-white South Africans. It did not resolve all the problems of the country or make it fully united, but it helped.
People get very excited about sports. They are very identifying with the team they like. They build a kinship with the others who like the same team. This is why sport can be utilized to help build a nation. If people in a country share a mutual desire for a particular sport or a certain team, that shared desire can give them something similar that makes them feel that they are in the same part of the same nation.
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KEYWORDS : Sport, Nation Building
Subject : Social Studies
Class : 10-12
Sub-Chapter : Sport
