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Chapter 15 British and American Sports Lead-in questions Can you name some popular sports in the UK and the USA? How do you perceive sports in terms of culture and national character? Do you think sports somehow reflect culture? Why people participate? To keep fit To know more people understand them better To learn how to get along with others To get a feeling of excitement a sense of success To have experience of wearing popular fashionable sports clothes Some facts about sports in Britain Of all sporting activities walking: by far the most popular for men and for women of all ages. men tend to dominate golf and cue sports such as snooker and billiards. women generally prefer swimming, keep-fit classes and yoga. Sport, when compared with other leisure activities, has secured a more central place in the national culture of contemporary Britain. Sports the British Culture Precisely because it has become such a part and parcel of British culture and society, sport is, not unexpectedly, problematic. Sport has nowadays been related to the question of drugs; it is no longer a leisure activity; it’s a business!’, it is a potentially political issue’ . There also exists in the field a variation of social-class membership with regard to active participation in sports. It is noted that the better the class, the greater the rate of the participation. Sport the British Culture And we should remember that “class consciousness is fundamental to the British sense of national identity. Differences of accent, dress, taste and life style all serve as markers of class”. Sport, of course, is of no exception. Whilst fox hunting is traditionally considered an upper-class pursuit, football is widely regarded as a hallmark of the working class. Certain changes may have taken place in the twentieth century, but divisions are still there. Cricket has a rather upper class as well as rural flavor; playing cricket is meant to be synonymous with gentlemanly behavior– fair play. tea