Popular events like the 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?
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. This essay argue an 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 better. 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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Note : In this essay, student use so many informal words. Try to avoid informal words to achieve good score.
What is formal and informal?
