Quiz 2
For this quiz, you must construct a paragraph that addresses the following:
When discussing the love of Baseball in Latin America, Guttmann quoted:
Yankee exploitation of Hispanic talent has not, however, diminished the Hispanic love for beisbol. The attitude of many of the Caribbean's fanaticos was well represented by the Dominican journalist Pedro Julio Santana in an interview with Rob Ruck: "You must understand that baseball is not thought of as the sport of the Yankee imperialists. . . .Baseball is the national sport of the Caribbean. [The Americans] have not given us anything else that, in my opinion, is of any value."
And CLR James said on page 65 of Beyond a Boundary said:
"Cricket had plunged me into politics long before I was aware of it. When I did turn to politics, I did not have too much to learn."
This tension between the introduction of sports from British and American cultures into Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean highlights the dominance of Anglo-Saxon hegemony globally at the turn of the century and the expansion of European empires. However, each region developed its own unique sporting cultures, with states using national sports to reject foreign influence or to reimagine local identities. For example, although football/soccer is the most popular sport worldwide, specific styles of play are often associated with particular localities. Or recreating ancient sporting contests, as in China or Mexico, reflects an indigenous identity separate from the global norm.
For this quiz, answer the following question:
What are the ways colonized nations use sports to create national identities?
Please consider how nations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas adapted sports to forge independence in an imperialized world.
When referring to your sources, you do not have to use exact quotations, but you must address the author and the title of the article, book, or chapter that you are using.
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