Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think sports are meant to unite people.
Sports is a bunch of people gathering around, watching something that they're not actually connected to - they're just emotionally connected.
For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about.
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.
Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.
Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.
In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.
Sport allows people to come together, but politics divides people.
Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.
Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
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