Student+-+Varker,+D

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

__//**b. Why do you think people choose not to belong? **//__
===__//**c. What are the barriers which prevent belonging in this way? **//__=== ===__//**d. How does this aspect of belonging reflect human experiences in the 21st century? **//__=== a. There are many reasons why people who live in various states of [|Australia support different codes of sport]. Queenslanders support Rugby league, People from New South Wales support Rugby League with a strong growth in soccer and Victorians support Aussie Rules. I think that these people support their different codes because it is a way to uniquely show their personality with reference to where they live. Another could be just simply because it is what they have been brought up with and they could not live in any other way. b. There could reasons for people not choosing to belong due to the stigmas associated with each individual sports. Aussie Rules’ stigma as a “girly sport” is dominate in N.S.W and Queensland where in Victoria rugby league is considered an unskilled sport where there is not effort in order to play. c. Only recently has there been any effort in order break down the[| barriers in belonging]to any sporting code. Rugby league located into Aussie rules dominated Victoria in 1998 when the NRL team the Melbourne Storm was created ever since there has been a steady increase in the number of junior players joining the sport. Aussie rules has made several advances into Rugby league dominated areas examples being the AFL teams south Melbourne swans and Fitzroy lions relocating to Sydney and Brisbane respectively during the late 1980’s. However there have been barriers identified through perceived risks in joining these contact sports there could be fears of getting injured that could pose as a barrier to entry into the sport. D. These different sporting codes are an enormous reflection of [|human experiences]in the 21st century. People often reflect in a positive way about their own sporting experiences such as the time their team made it to the grand final or that they finally won their first grand final in decades. Sport is also a reflection of a culture and a culture often dictates how people value their own experiences in Australia sport is placed in high importance so any sporting achievements made by any Australians would probably rate very high in all of their achievements.

