SAY NO TO RACISM

 Have you heard about the campaign 'Say no to racism'? It is the campaign to banish the racism and it was the title of the '2014 Brazil FIFA World Cup'. In sports games, it is very sensitive thing. And it is strictly punished when someone expressed racism related action or word.

 For example, at LIGA BBVA the Spain soccer league, Daniel Alves(FC Barcelona) suffered racial discrimination. Fan of opponent team, threw a banana that means 'a monkey'. This incident spread to SNS(Social Networking Service) widely and many people criticized about that.

  The purpose of sport is gathering our different mind and making peace over the conflict including racism. So, I think that committing racism in sports games means breaking the peace. When you play sport, keep this in mind and let's think about the spirit of sport and making peace together. World peace could be start by a little thing that we didn't think about.

The effect of sports

     What’s the big news nowadays? There were many sad news about Sae Wol Ho and kidnap in Nigeria. However, I hear one exciting news-World Cup! Like an oasis from the desert, everyone is now focused on World Cup. Even my friends woke up early in the morning to watch it.

     Speaking of World Cup, one of my Korean friend told me about 2002 World Cup in Korea. It was probably the most passionate and patriotic moment at that time because the Korean soccer team moved up to the semifinals. It was a historical moments for Korean people. Everyone went outside cheered “대한민국!”, clapped, and sang all night. Whenever Korean team scored, everyone hugged each other even with strangers. At that time, the crime percentage got 30% lower than previous year.

<Korean people gathered in City Hall>

     From this, I found out sports may have effects of uniting people together. It is amazing how sports moved people’s mind and made people get together. I thought this was more like a peace festival. No hatred, no war, no tears but love, passion, and joy.

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One ball makes one !

One ball makes one !

Even though you speak another language or in a different culture than others, or even can’t communicate with a foreign friend, you can communicate with sports. I sometimes play and watch soccer with my friends, and this was the conclusion. You can make friends even though you can not communicate; this is not a problem at all! Just bring a soccer ball, or a ball that you can play with, and that is it. It is an easy way to meet others. This way, you can easily open others mind and heart to you. Although you can not say or understand completely, or deeply, but this way you can at least start. Because the rules and passion of winning is the same with people you can be one.

And the funny thing is that, if you are a person who doesn’t have a national characteristic, when you are watching a soccer match or the Olympics he or she becomes the representative of the nation. This is what people are. We are proud of the person who we are even though we like it or not.

 The Brazil World cup is coming up starting this June. It will be held in Sao Paulo, Curitiba and over other 10 cities. Many soccer fans will be coming and watching the games. And all the inner personalities will come out at that time also. This was always like the games before. Are you counting the days and are you looking forward to it? Well, don’t forget that these kinds of games will make people one, not only with the people of the same nations, but with all the people around the world.

  

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