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Discussion 3 (5)

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Q Think about sports in your community, including pleasure & participation sports and power & performance sports at all levels from youth leagues to college or professional levels. List three ways that sports in your community (including sports in the media) are connected with class relations and class inequality.

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Connection #1: In my community, I have observed that swimming is present and it is dominated by the white people. Each of the communities has a swimming pool and kids are encouraged to learn it. However, I have observed that swimming is mainly practiced by the whites because most the black community is not provide with the facility of joining the swimming classes or most of them cannot afford it. Moreover, the black people are not encouraged to take participate in these games since it is considered as a “sophisticated” game.