Malaysia used to have a patriotic song called Bahasa Jiwa Bangsa, that is, "language is the soul of the people."What this song is prominent is the alliance government in Malaysia in the past, hoping to encourage citizens to use Mandarin Malaysia as the main way to create national identity.
Malaysias that are tried to coexist in a diverse context cannot be considered too successful. Although for different ethnic groups, the new generation of Mandarin Chinese ability is of course far better than the parents, but if you want to talk about national identity, Malay language is to be mentioned.The role is far from sports.
Taking the popular Olympic Games as an example, compared to neighboring countries such as Thailand and Singapore, the Olympic gold medal has been won, but Malaysia has not yet achieved the Olympic gold medal dream.Just like this Paris Olympic Games, and the merchant will increase the bonus, hoping to encourage the country's sports athletes to win the gold medal to increase the light of the country.
But this does not prevent people from the love of sports. It can also be found from the Olympic movement that the general public in Malaysia is very enthusiastic to watch the Olympic event, and gives the national players' national competitions.focus on.
Of course, the Malaysian Association has such an atmosphere of attaching importance to sports, not appeared between the past and nights. As described in the glorious era of Malaysia's most selling sports movies in 2016, in the 1970s, the Malaysian Football Team fought in the Olympic Games preliminaries.The story has encouraged every Malaysian.Because this national football team is composed of a multi -ethnic group and is not a professional athlete, they eventually overcome cultural and language differences, and with the spirit of professional team cooperation, they overcome the dilemma of non -vocational players and represent the country's power on behalf of the country!
Maybe we can see this. The story of the Malaysian Football Team not only allows sports to make blood enthusiastically, but also inspires the Malaysian nationals from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.In this way, when the sports events are viewed, I have a personal feeling of integration in the overall integration. Among them, we can see the role of sports events as a state identifying adhesive.
Not only that, but also sports events rich in national identity atmosphere, and have also experienced in the 1980s of the author's growth.At that time, the Malaysians attached great importance to the Toms Cup Badminton Team in the National and Team Tournaments.Due to the method of old badminton international competition scoring, such a race will often continue from afternoon to midnight.Therefore, during the key game period, such as the semi -final or bronze medal, the street is quiet.On the contrary, before the home TV of Ganbin or Xincun, he shouted from time to time. When the national team scored, he could also see the child holding the national flag and excitedly rushing out of the house.
It is because of the continuous atmosphere of passion for sports competitions that it makes a country such as Malaysia's results in international sports events not be brilliant and the national sports training budget is not high.Sports.At the same time, if you carefully observe the TV advertisement or kanban in Malaysia, you will find that the ratio of local sports stars will appear quite high.This increases the willingness of ordinary people to invest in various movements.
Therefore, instead of making language to become the soul of Malaysians, it is better to maintain this good atmosphere of moving as a Malaysian national soul.
After all, whether this good sports atmosphere can continue is still unreasonable.Some new trends can also be seen from the Paris Olympics. For example, the sports fans of the Olympic broadcast are too old, which is no exception in Malaysia.Because of the broadcast of the past, it is mainly based on wireless channels that belong to the public, but the current events can only be seen on paid cable televisions, which greatly weaken the popularity of Olympic broadcasting.In addition, young people are used to watching images on a more niche spread on the Internet platform. Traditional television stations are no longer the main platform for them to receive information, and it is not conducive to the broadcast of Olympic events.
Therefore, the national identity and overall sense of the individual as described by the sports events described by the author still exist in this Internet generation is not completely unquestionable.How to consolidate sports as a country's national identity as the soul of Malaysia is one of the major issues that sports development must face in Malaysia.
The author is a columnist in Malaysia and Taiwan
