Historical determinants in uk and australia
- Created by: francescaaustin
- Created on: 13-04-17 10:30
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- Historical determinants
- UK
- Old culture
- 19th century defined class system
- class determined income, lifestyle, sporting opportunities
- sport comes from public school system
- Power and prestige from british empire had global impact
- Sport help to establish the british traditions which spread sport to the empire
- In 19th century, UK had clear divisions between amateur sporting gentlemen and professionals
- Division was very clear in sporting instances such as Cricket
- Australia
- New culture
- Name "currency" was give to convicts children and are claimed to be 1st generation of true australians
- Didn't have this class structure, given the name of Land of fair go
- Sport associated with UK where adopted by the "currency" and native australians
- As australia was part of the empire, the UK was considered as the "motherland"
- Australians always wanted to beat the "motherland" so every win was significant
- Social class and sporting status was much less rigid as 'land of fair go' and 'egalitarianism' was present
- UK
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