American Cultural Value on Sports

  Since I come to America for nearly two weeks, there is one thing that makes me very impressive.It is about Americans attitude towards doing sports.

  Americans sports spirit , in my opinion, is to participate. There are many ways to take part in the sports activities, from watching sports games, doing exercises, to learning a new sports. Americans really like it. During this progress, they can make new friends, strengthen the relationship with old friends, get to learn something new, keep fit as well as have fun.

  I really felt surprised that parents took their very young children to watch the competition when I watched the baseball game last week . In China, however, parents may think that the children are too young to understand the game. Taking the children to watch the game is a waste of money and time. Of course, not all the parents think so, but I believe the number of parents like this is more in China than that in America.

  Americans seem to  have a value that children should be available to various kinds of sports, and if the kids show their interests to a specific sport, they can get support  to fully tap their potential on it. Also, last week ,  when I was in the RSC center learning how to play basketball from my friends, we met a girl who is 13  plays basketball very well. To be honest, I feel a little embarrassed because I am 7 years older than her, but it was almost the first time that I started to learn how to play basketball! Our gap is to some extent due to our different growing environment, and the difference between us is that she could have more chances to get connected with these sports when she was younger.

  Also, I think their attitude to sports can be reflected on the facilities. When I first entered the REC , I was amazed by the kinds of sports facilities. With more access to them, I get to know that everything here, everything the stuff do is to provide a convenient and effective environment for people to exercise.

(The RSC stuff is helping us make a volleyball court.)

  (The amazing swimming pool in Miami University!)

(Excited audiences who  are watching the game and cheering up.)

 All of these is a reflection on cultural value about sports.I really like it and even though I am not an American, I am happy to have the chance to experience and learn more about their spirit.

(Note:All the photos were taken by the author .)