How ethnic should our sports leagues remain?
Recent gender blending makes us wonder to what extend sports leagues should remain a representataive for a country or city with all its ethnic glory inside themselves
KILNA was made as an hmmage to American sports leaguers currently active in all major cities and states in the United States. In this drawing I tried to create a looney atmosphere in which the topic is brought forward how homogenous or multicultural sports leagues should be in the United States or in other countries. such as In the Netherlands,. National soccer team shas been multicultural and has a history in being so since there was diversity and a history of tolerance towards alternative cultures in the Neteherlands and scouting abroad and a situation of overseas territories.
NAC the soccer team of Breda is an example of how young players are trained, recruited and styled to the point of there being a market for tradition, multiculturalism and the looks of player s bercoming an equally big deal as the talent they can demonsterate on the field. NAC, the soccer team of Breda has chosen, or has organically tunred into, an ethnically and quintessentially Dutch team that has a shared history and is one hundred percent Dutch in its origins, for the moment being,.
With mational identities threatening to disappear we must be open about the opinion of the players themselves and ourselves as being the spectator or the public as to how much we feel a national identity and to which extend a small country like the Netherlands should be ethnic Dutch players or leave it to organic or marhet forces. I think with the gender bending and profession blending of sports teams we should leave it up to the public, and maybe take inspiration from the heydays of decadent lifestyles of the sport stars versus the discipline the athlete or team player must demonstrate in their performanvce as a player. This subject has been a sensitive issue for many years but there are aspects of representation and the nation as a communially binding area that we must respect and also ridden of attacking technologies that IT and Google have been causing. The televison and the images of games may have changed for the better, for more detail and more density and colourwithout having the melancholiy of the star or celebrity that we recognize on the field as we enjoy seeing new faces and races too.
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