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Research Paper

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Americans are more likely to have started to play sports since they were young, and their educational programs encourage much more of physical activities than do the purely study-based korean education system.=====

We are going to survey 50 adults (25 men, 25 women) in each region, and ask them:

 * =====Did you play sports when you were in school? If so, which ones?=====
 * =====How many hours or minutes do you work out a day?=====
 * =====What kind of exercise do you do?=====
 * =====Why or why not do you exercise?=====
 * =====Do you have a membership at a gym?=====
 * =====Do you have time to workout?=====

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Article 1: [|__http://www.athleticinsight.com/Vol1Iss1/Asian_Aggression.htm#ABSTRACT__] =====

This article discusses the studies done on professional athletes of Asia and America. It discusses the different psychological aspects about this story, and suggests where the main difference of the two different athletes come in place: their attitude. While the Asian attitude is more workaholic and composed, the American athletes often dislike practice and are aggressive and belligerent in their competitions. This may also lead to the discussion of their abilities to win, which involves the feeling of guilt. While the Americans feel less guilt of winning, Asians suffer some stress involved with winning. The cultural ties of the Asians that pressures their winning sometimes suppress the athletes ability. This involves the reliance on families for the athletic abilities, which athletes of both regions agreed was very influential. However the Americans claim to have had less family support yet more chances to involve in sports since youth, while Asians were more prone to have better family support. From this data we can look at how the general adults who do the surveys are likely to feel about sports themselves too. The surveyors, with their cultural pressure may feel differently about the sports, and the type of sports that they are involved in would also be different for similar reasons.

Article 2:
[|__http://www.slate.com/id/2206088/__]

This involves not only the attitude and behavior, or the upraising of the child. This article deals with the probability of each race having a higher tendency of participating in certain sports. Such as black people are more active in basketball and in fact many of the NBA players are black. This involves not only the physical environment of the people but also the genes that they are born with. From this genetic perspective, the different sports and amount of time people put in sports can be different due to their tendency to be better at certain sports and being more likely to be active in those excelling, or easy sports. The white Americans who run well are likely to be more participatory in cross country, likewise Chinese people are more likely to be involved in agililty based sports as badminton or ping pong. Thus the time spent on such sports would be definitely higher than that of others. The reasoning of the type of sports people do, and how much time they use on them could be explained through this genetic research and statistics. This could be Incorporated with our research in the ‘what sports’ and ‘why’ factor.