| National character is the mainstream character of the people of a nation. The key point of modernization is to cultivate citizens’modern personality. The national character of China has been improved though, the passive personality of our Chinese people is still quite notable: the dependence of individuals to family is still on a very high level, there is a lack of enterprising spirit and fair-play sense, there is a shortage of individuality and innovation, the sense of democracy and law is quite weak, too concerned about the face problem, not good at cooperation, advocating femininity and quietness, the sense of action and practice is weak, etc. One-sided focus on economic development results in the degeneration of the social morality, and the generation growing up in one-child families have at large shown their weak characters, such as "self-centered" (extreme individualism), lazy and indolent, too dependent, and weak-minded, and all those things have worsened the modernization of our Chinese people. All in all, national character transformation is a huge task, and we have a long way to go.To observe the history of our national character transformation, we find more lessons and less achievements. It proves with facts that the most effective way is culture and education improvement, ideaistic enlightenment, and human nature edification. Sports, as an important part of modern culture and education, plays a very important role in national character transformation and has various merits:sports can produce very good comprehensive effects, is quite feasible and practical, is full of entertainment, and is cross-culture and universal.Sports can help cultivate the modern personalities of children and youths. It can give children a happy childhood, cultivate their enterprising spirit, fair-play sense, sportsmanship, cooperation sense, good-faith, strong will, and distinct characters, and build up their physical force, vitality, and creativity.Sports can help prevent and adjust the current people’s unhealthy personality. It can help treat the "civilization illness" of the people in the modern society, satisfy some of their basic instinctive desires, build up a healthy and casual lifestyle, reduce their pressure, foster their bodies and minds, increase their communications, restore their feelings, meet their individual demands, find back their inspiration and dignity, and so on and so forth.The change of those children who once studied in America as the first batch of children in the Qing Dynasty shows the character transformation potential and possibility of our Chinese people. Qiu Jin practicing martial arts sets a good example for women. The gentle and weak bookman Hu Shi even enthusiastically shouted for sports. Mao Tse Tung used sports to build his body and exercise his will power. Li Huitang, as the football king of Asia, sets a very good role model in the sports world. The "animalism" advocated by Chen Duxiu provides a very good way for Chinese family education. Nankai University and Tsinghua University set two enduring examples for Chinese school sports.The successful experiences of the western developed countries prove that sports plays an important role in national character transformation. America sets a best example, its national character is better the other countries’, and this is inseparable from sports; Japanese culture is very similar to Chinese culture, but Japan has made a successful national character transformation, which is also inseparable from its emphasis on modern education and sports, and it sets a good example for us.Olympics always sticks to its ideal of cultivating perfect personality of the modern youth. The grand Olympic Games held once in four years provides a superb platform for all the people in the world loving peace to receive a grand spiritual baptism. From the change of the Beijing Olympic Games volunteers, we can see the power of the Olympic Games.Many constructive ideas were put forth. |
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