Popular events like football world cup and other international sporting occasions are essential in easing international tensions and releasing patriotic emotions in a safe way. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
From ancient time, sport competitions have been considered as the best way to prove supremacy of any kind. And when the players of those contests are representing nations, it is understandable why people have a lot of emphasis on it. Therefore, it is normal that such international sport events, like world cup or Olympic Games, to have an emotional impact on the people.
Of course it is true that world cup can nurture our patriotic emotions, and maybe release some of it, in a “safe way”, but I believe this is the only good part of the story. For the teams who win and its supporters it’s simple, because they will fill “revenged” and satisfied, and their supremacy will be uncontestable. However, it is a different story if it is looked from the eyes of the losers. They could get frustrated and this will certainly born a negative fillings, and will probably raise their hate against the other teams. There are many examples of heavy fighting between supporters or even worst: peoples who turn against their own players.
On the other hand there are many other international sporting competition who doesn’t let so many marks in the heart of the spectators such as Olympic Games. They can truly bring nation together, and make them better understand each other. From this point of view I believe it is possible to influence some of international tensions by moderating them.
In other words, popular sporting events could have a natural minor good influence on latent hostility between nations, but it cannot be consider as an instrument of conciliation.
P.S. This was a very hard topic for me, and I believe it still doesn't have a good coherency.
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