By: Marcus Kok
Kids should be encouraged to do anything they have a passion for. Kids, male or female should be encouraged to play sports if they show interest. Females should be encouraged to play football if they love the sport and males should be encouraged to play tennis or volleyball if they enjoy the sport. Everyone is born different and unique so everyone will have different interests. I know parents trying to stop their daughters from playing sports and be more “woman like.” On the other hand, parents sometimes tend to force their sons to play sports.
I would like to talk more about soccer and football. The
types of sports exposed to us while growing up determines what sport we would
end up loving or playing. A great example is Football and soccer. Kids in
America will end up playing or being football fans because kids will most
likely be exposed to football at a very young age. Most kids outside of America
will be more interested in soccer. No matter male or female, a person’s desire
to a particular sport is determined by where they grew up. My friends from
Malaysia and I have the passion for soccer like how most people in America have
the passion for football. That is because we grew up being exposed with
different sports, which happens to be soccer. I was really surprised to hear some
people describe soccer and tennis as a ‘girly’ sport but I think otherwise.
Even female soccer players are very physical. I feel that soccer is a pretty
physical sport and tennis is a gentlemen’s sport.
I barely knew anything about football or baseball before I
transferred to America because they were not big at all in my country. I have
been trying my best to learn more about these two sports since I got here. I
find it difficult to relate with the examples given in class because I do not
know most of the athletes from football or baseball.
By: Taylor Cook
ReplyDeleteMarcus, I completely agree that girls and boys should be allowed to play any sports that they desire as children. If a girl is growing up and feels the need to try and be a football player because she likes the sport, or her brothers play it she should be allowed to. On my high school football team as I mentioned in class, I had two girls that were on the football team with me and we treated them as any other person on the football team.
I also agree with you that we should definitely talk more about soccer. I personally do not know much about the sport of soccer because I was never exposed to it as a kid and I feel like if I got to know more about it it would be more interesting to me. I have never thought of tennis or soccer as sports that were "girly," but I feel like some people in America develop that opinion because they are never truly exposed to the sports. Therefore, I do not feel that they should be able to make that judgement without never experiencing what the sport has to offer.
I completely agree, I think some parents do tend to push children into playing certain sports. I know when I was younger my best friend's dad pushed him to play football and only continued to play it cause he didn't want to disappoint him. On the other hand, when I was growing up my parents never told me or my sisters that we couldn't play any particular sports due to views of the society. They always supported me in whatever I chose to play. I know when I have kids, I will support them in whatever sports they decide to play even if society's view of that sport are different. What really made this point clear to me was when I was in high school, I played in a summer baseball league and every year there was always this one girl in the league. Many parents thought this was a bad idea and always criticized her when she was playing. However, as a player I really respected her and so did many of the other players in the league from talking with them. Since we played against each other so often we became good friends and still talk today. When looking back at everything, I came to realize that it was the parents that had the major problem with this and not the players. It showed me that society is growing better as a whole but is still not perfect.
ReplyDeleteI have to also agree with you about how you said that people tend to play the sports that they are brought up with. As a child I was always watching baseball and football. As I grew older those were my two main sports in high school and they are also the only two intramurals I play at BG. Since I was never really around soccer and lived in a town that thought of soccer as a unmanly sport it kind of shunned me away from it.
By Josh Gibson
By: Taylor Brown
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with this. As a kid, I grew up not knowing a whole lot about soccer, and honestly my parents never encouraged me to play it. However, my parents did encourage me to watch football and I became a fan at a very young age. I think you are absolutely right when you say that where you are born really matters as far as what sports you like growing up. I know that soccer is the most popular sport in the world, so everyone else probably looks at America like we are the different ones.
I think if I were to have grown up in any other country my outlook on certain sports would have been a lot different, and maybe I wouldn't even like baseball or football. I also agree with you that people of any gender should be allowed to play any sport they want, and shouldn't be discouraged from it. I don't think anyone should be told they can't do something in sports and everyone should at least be allowed to try what they like doing.