Racism In Sport In Australia

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Firstly, as racism is so common, it and its negative effects have been embedded into the Australian sporting culture. In the past, the nation’s racist culture in sport has denied the opportunities sport in Australia offers, such as the capability to improve intercultural relations, its offers for individuals and the way it could unite people from different backgrounds. For many years, racism in sport has set the ‘normal’ culture being passed down to younger generations every day, this can be proven as shown in information from semi-structured interviews with individuals aged from fourteen years of age to twenty-two which was performed and presented by researchers Kaine Grigg and Lenore Manderson (Grigg & Manderson, 2015). The research showed

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