Margirie Dublin
Vance Lockmiller
Jo Kawabata
A02
Asian Americans and Badminton
Presentation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LPYLhuCOOVd2bbnamIk8zipXBl990oG5gDyUSCOxy7c
- What is your SAPSA about?
- Our SAPSA is about why badminton is such an unpopular sport in America.
- Who is your intended audience?
- Everyone. People to know what makes an acceptable racially charged claim.
- Did you accomplish what you set out to do?
- Yes
- What were the challenges?
- Mainly was what we were going to present because our topics were too broad.
- What would you have done differently?
- We should have done more interviews.
- What is the future of your SAPSA?
- Hopefully this will show that because of the time we are living in now that we should be careful what we label as racism.
Our SAPSA project is about understanding why Badminton is such an unpopular sport and seems to be an Asian dominated sport. We intend to inform everyone that the is not a racially charged sport. It is intended to show people what makes an acceptable racially charged claim. We accomplished what we set out to do, because we were able to do research and find out that even though Badminton is Asian dominate, it is not a racial issues. The lack of popularity towards Badminton, is the reason why this sport is not seen as important. From our research we find that Badminton, being fairly new to the U.S. society, is the reason why
ReplyDeleteWe hope that our SAPSA video reaches out to everyone or as many people as possible. The reason is, we believe that the issue addressed in our video discusses a problem in the athletic world which does not get enough attention. We hope that our video clarifies any misconceptions of the sport, if there were any, about the debatably racial dominance.
Our video does accomplish our goal of investigating the reason behind the unpopularity of the sport, badminton. While we first hypothesized that this was a race driven problem in the country, we were able to conclude that, given time, the sport may begin to garner the interest many of the other sports in the US have established.
The main challenge we faced was finding a specific topic. While we initially were set to investigate exactly why not many Asian Americans were not represented in sports here in the US, we decided to focus specifically on badminton and why the Asian American dominated sport is not treated with much interest. We also struggled to find good resources but we were still able to draw conclusions from raw data.
If we were to do this assignment again, we would have done more interviews. We believe that the interview gave us a lot of insight but we would have liked to hear more from other perspectives than a single badminton player in Davis. Perhaps we could have interviewed Dr. Hamamoto who suggested this topic for us.
We hope that this video will give insight to people who immediately label things as “racism.” Many things, while potentially correlated with race, is not exactly race driven. While we there are many things today that tend to be labeled as racism, we must look into it further and think carefully before we define anything as racism.