Olympism and multiculturalism
Parte de Olympism and Olympic Education . páginas 140 - 146
Resumo
Recognition of the social, economic, and political importance of multiculturalism was seen as one of the greatest challenges of the twentieth century and continues to require consideration in the twenty-frst. The promotion of mutual understanding, tolerance, equality, and respect between individuals and communities as opposed to discriminatory practices, especially in a global society, requires consideration of diferent kinds, including human and civil rights and citizenship, as well as education and culture. Sport is one of the felds that require consideration when it comes to multiculturalism. Such consideration has often been given with a certain trivializing character, as a simple discourse massively repeated, which constitutes another element of the fabrication of alterity. One must therefore be careful when venturing into this territory, as sport itself has multiple and contradictory functions in the so-called “spectacle society.” Sport, as a feld of body production and psychological and cultural expressions, is multifaceted. This characteristic of sport invites us to think beyond the usual oppositions, tracing the presence of unexpected efects that are produced in every social phenomenon, and sport today is central in our society for the production of these efects. Sport keeps a mutant memory of the values, norms, and codes of each culture. It registers the scientifc and technological solutions and limits of each historical moment and has not ceased to be reinvented over time.
