Why The Japanese Came To American Culture

Each group of culture has their own unique backgrounds of physical activities that they bring with them to America. Physical activities are actions when an individual moves their body with intensity such as sports. A good example is when the Japanese came to America; they brought over their sport values along with adapting to American sports. The Japanese established similar and significant sport themes like other culture such as emotional support, community interaction, and equality. According to Regalado, (1992), the Japanese came to America during the world war two. They came to the United States to have freedom like Americans. The Japanese brought over their traditional sports such as bamboo-strave fighting and sumo wrestling (Regalado,
(Regalado, 1992). Rewarding and recognition were meaningful to players. According to Regalado (1992), Japanese were recognition started from small community base groups. Community sports team help constructed comradeship with other baseball teams by competing against eachother. By receiving positive feedback or recognition of their competitive abilities from doing something they love made the feel worthy psychologically (Regalado, 1992). Sports helped them release frustration and built confident for success in sports. They also found time away from fieldwork to play baseball (Regalado, 1992). The Japanese also followed the order aspect of emotional support by playing baseball base on the American’s rules. This demonstrates their devotion for sports. Baseball was so meaningful to organizations that they carve their own diamond baseball field. The concept that people play sports for emotional support holds to be true because it is also other culture’s value in
Louis action followed the whites’ norms to receive respect. He acted as gentlemen in order to break the negative stereotypes about blacks (Runstedtler, 2010). He used this act to demonstrate that Blacks also deserved to be well respected as whites. His winning titles in boxing also earned respect from the white community (Runstedtler, 2010). When Louis was losing matches he was look down upon. He was facing black stereotypes and all the blames were put on his life (Runstedtler, 2010). This demonstrates how that if they want to be well respected in American they needed to show outstanding performances. When Louis created the winning status again he was well respected again. This shows that the American society value winning, where as Louis played sports not for winning, but because it help recognize their similarity to America. Louis’ successes did not just gain respect for himself, but he gained respect within his black community (Runstedtler, 2010). Louis’s example demonstrates the same value of sports as the Japanese. Both used sports to demonstrate their outstanding performances. These two cultures have demonstrated how sports played a big role in their society for breaking the color barriers. This movement helped them receive the same outcome: respect, inequality, and