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Olympic Culture Development From The View Of Cultural Pluralism

Posted on:2008-08-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Y ZhanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360215972612Subject:Humanities and sociology
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The Modern Olympic Movement have gone through over one hundred years, have got general participation and support from countries all over the world, already become an international social culture movement that of largest members, most excellent contents and most extensive influence in the history of mankind. The Olympic Movement can make so attracting global phenomenon, benefiting from its compatibility and respect to plural culture to a great extent. However, the course of Olympic with pluralistic culture is quite long. The development has going through over one hundred years, western culture remains take an absolute leading factor in Olympic culture. The Olympic Movement's global development at full speed objectively demands to accelerate the pluralistic process of Olympic culture. At the same time, because" globalization" and "culture pluralism" are newer propositions, there are still little study on pluralistic of Olympic culture in era of globalization at present. The question is not only concerning the survival and development of the Olympic Movement in globalization era, but also concerning the survival and development of non-western nations'traditional sports.The article studies the Olympic cultural pluralism using the study methods of document, expert's interview and logic,from the view of cultural pluralism. The main results are:1. Analyses the problems that may caused by the conflict between its globalization and cultural homogeneity: Having caused the "homogeneity" inclination of the sports culture in the world, various sports cultures reduce sharply in the global range; Favorable to the cultural colonialism.2. Proves the author's main view that culture pluralism is the inevitable choice for Olympic culture development: Only pluralism could be favorable to the protection of various sports in the world, and the existence of various cultures is the prerequisite for cultural innovation; Only pluralism could stands for equality in the Olympic Movement, and equality is the basic principle in international communication, it is also the existence foundation that the Olympic Movement depends on; Only when Olympic culture realizes cultural pluralism, could the Olympic Movement really realizes universality, universality is a goal and ideal of the Olympic Movement; Cultural pluralism is an essential condition for Olympic culture becomes to be advanced sports culture in the world; There is no feasible condition in reality for Olympic culture to be homogeneity in the era of globalization.3. Analyses the main obstacles in the Olympic Movement realizing cultural pluralism: Influence of the outmoded psychology that Europe centre thoughts; the east countries do not pay enough attention to the Olympic culture competition; the national sports cultures'characters are not be expressed outstandingly; the advanced construction of national sports culture lags behind.4. Pointed out some ways to overcome these obstacles: Establish an equal constructive talk relationship between different cultures; protect the national sports'special culture characters; accelerate the construction of advanced national sports; distribute the right in the Olympic Movement equally.
Keywords/Search Tags:cultural pluralism, Olympic culture, development
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