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The
World Cup football match and the Olympics are held worldwide
with great national support and expectations. As a fan of those competitions, I
agree with the idea that sporting events can be necessary for international
relations and national unity. In
this essay, I will think about the effects of these popular sporting events.
First of
all, the World Cup, Olympics and other international games work for easing
tensions among different nations. For example, South and North Korea have
football games regularly which
give two nations a chance to
understand each other deeply. In
the mid 1990s, a hundreds of North Korean supporters came to
South Korea with the footballers and they were very excited during the sporting
events. Even if it sounds ridiculous, many South Koreans were quite surprised
at that moment when North Koreans shouted and cried during the match. We all
realized that they were very normal sports fans even though they were
occasionally very secretive. Through the sports, two divided nations could
reduce their political and ideological tensions and could feel the patriotic
unity.
On the other hand,
some sports matches can make international relations worse. For instance,
football or baseball games between Korea and Japan are always big matches in
two countries where full of
tensions overflow. Sometimes, after the matches, the two rivals blame each
other and their patriotic emotions explode in an aggressive way.Even much worse scenario is that the troubles caused
by losing games affect the players directly. As far as I know, a couple of
Korean players in Japan are suffered from invisible discrimination
after the match between two countries.
In conclusion, I
think that international sporting occasions can be one of the good ways to ease
tensions or to release patriotism safely. However, I believe that games can not
be the fundamental ways for the sound patriotism or peaceful international relations.
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