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**//1. //** **//Choose a ‘social identity’ that interests you? //** The social identity that I chose is [|Sport fanaticism] which can be classified as belonging to a lifestyle activity. Sports fanaticism is about supporting your team, and it is becoming a major part of Australian culture, as it is said that sport is over taking religion. Fanaticism  can be [|defined]as a fanatic outlook or behaviour especially as exhibited  by excessive-enthusiasm , unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant  notions on some  subject.
 * __Sport Fanaticism __**

**// 2. Conduct research into how and why people belong in these particular ways. //**

//<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">a) ////<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Why do you think people choose to belong in this way? // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">People belong in this way as they all share a common interest and are passionate about their club. If someone shares a common interest that is a major part of their lives, then they will be able to identify with them. They also feel a sense of collegiality and inclusion as they are part of a group which shared interest in which they value. Their membership with a particular sporting club or team, contributes in a positive way to their self-esteem and [|sense of identity]. They also identify with people who are like minded and associate well with them. The poem __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Life-cycle] __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"> by Bruce Dawe explores the concept of sports fanaticism and the dominance that it has in individual’s lives. It explores the concept of living a life with AFL at centre of it. Through the use of different techniques the poem indirectly shows the obsession with AFL, relating it to a religion, and conveying ideas through the life-cycle of a person and their dedication to the sport.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">b) Why do you think people choose not to belong? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 18pt;">People may choose not to belong due to the stereotypes associated with ‘sport fanatics’ due to their culture. Some people may not want to participate in this lifestyle activity as they fear over involvement, devotion or obsession with the activity which could be seen as abnormal. It has been said that sports fanaticism can fuel behaviour that can paralyse the mind. People may also choose not to belong as they don’t enjoy sport or the atmosphere created by sport fanatics.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">c) What are the barriers which prevent belonging in this way? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 18pt;">Barriers that prevent people belonging in this way are a person’s character, as they might not follow a team or be vocal about it. Conflicting values can also prevent people belonging in this way as people may not want sport to rule their lives when the people they are with do. Financial factors can also inhibit association with this lifestyle activity as people may not be able to afford going to games and purchasing apparel.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">d) How does this aspect of belonging reflect human experiences in the 21st century? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 18pt;">This aspect of belonging to a lifestyle activity reflects humans support and indulgence in Australian sport. It also reflects the [|popular culture] which is interconnected with sport and leisure. People are also investing in their interest of sport in their free-time as watching and supporting sport has become a way of keeping up with friends as this characteristic can be seen as a common interest. Human experience in the 21st century has can also be characterised by the enlarged interest in sport due to the increase in the televising sporting matches and the increase of quality viewing sporting venues.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">LIFE CYCLE ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">by Bruce Dawe //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">For Big Jim Phelan //

When children are born in Victoria They are wrapped in the club-colours, laid in beribboned cots, Having already begun a lifetime’s barracking.

Carn, they cry, Carn…feebly at first While parents playfully tussle with them For possession of a rusk: Ah, he’s a little Tiger! (And they are…)

Hoisted shoulder-high at their first League game They are like innocent monsters who have been years swimming Towards the daylight’s roaring empyrean

Until, now, hearts shrapnelled with rapture, they break surface and are forever lost, Their minds rippling out like streamers

In the pure flood of sound, they are scarfed with light, a voice Like the voice of God booms from the stands Ooohh you bludger and the covenant is sealed.

Hot pies and potato-crisps they will eat, They will forswear the Demons, cling to the saints and behold their team going up the ladder into Heaven,

And the tides of life will be the tides of the home-team’s fortunes -the reckless proposal after the one-point win, the wedding and the honeymoon after the grand-final…

They will not grow old as those from more northern States grow old, For them it will always be three-quarter-time With the scores level and the wind advantage in the final term,

That passion persisting, like a race-memory, through the welter of seasons, Enabling old-timers by boundary-fences to dream of resurgent lions And centaur-figures from the past to replenish continually the present,

So that mythology may be perpetually renewed And Chicken Smallhorn return like the maize-god In a thousand shapes, the dancers changing

But the dance forever the same - the elderly still Loyally crying Carn…Carn…(if feebly) unto the very end, Having seen in the six-foot recruit from Eaglehawk their hope of salvation