【龙腾网】QA：为什么印度不擅长体育?

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Why is India bad at Sports?

为什么印度不擅长体育?

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Anonymous
I am sharing an incident which will clearly explain why India is poor in sports.
This happened when I was 15 years old. I was good in studies, and like most of the middle class Indian parents, my parents also had great expectations from me. Somehow, I didn’t perform well in one term, which led to the worst academic result of my whole school life. In that same term, I won 3 gold medals in my school sports championship and was awarded as the best sportsperson of the year. We were given the academic results and sports awards and certificates on the same day. I returned home and told her about both the sports and academic results. She went fuming on me and swung a stick lying beside her at me. It missed me but hit the sports certificate on my hand, which caused it to tear from the edge. Even today, when I see the certificate, I can clearly remember that incident. It has a great symbolic significance of what is wrong in this country.
I am anonymous because I don’t want people to judge my mother based on that incident. We come from a lower middle class in a small city called Nagpur. My parents, especially my mother worked very hard and made a lot of sacrifices to provide me quality education from one of the best schools in Nagpur. My mother now accepts that that was the worst thing she could have done to me. I have now found a different passion, and happy with it. I couldn’t have done better without my mother.
It is very easy to blame the government, system, sports officials, and my mother in this case without knowing the underlying cause of the problem. India is a developing country. We are rising high, and rising fast. Most of India’s youth are the first generation to receive a quality education. Our parents don’t want to face difficulties like them and think that education is the only way to better their children’s life. When more than half of the population is stuck in abject poverty, education will be given preference over sports. And seeing the condition of sports persons in the country (obviously keeping aside Cricket), why would any parent encourage their child to sports! The only people we can blame is us- the society which sees sports merely as a hobby, the individual who is so engrossed only in some sports like cricket and questions the condition of sports only once every four years, and the system where corruption, nepotism, and ignorance flourish. Unless our perception towards sports changes, no amount of funding and training can make a significant difference.

我分享一个事件将清楚地解释为什么印度在体育方面表现很差。
这件事发生在我15岁的时候。我学习很好，和大多数印度中产阶级父母一样，我的父母也对我寄予厚望。不知何故，我在一个学期中表现不好了，在这个学期中我考出了有史以来最差的成绩。而同时在这个学期中，我在学校的体育锦标赛中获得了3枚金牌，并被授予年度最佳运动员。当天，我们获得了学业成绩、体育奖项和证书。我回到家，告诉她运动和学习的成绩。她冲我发火，拿起身旁的一根棍子朝我挥去。没有击中我，但击中了我的手，导致棍子边缘都裂了开来。
直到今天，当我看到这张证书时，我还清楚地记得那件事。它象征着这个国家到底出了什么问题。
我是匿名回答这个问题的，因为我不想让人们因为这件事来评判我的母亲。我们来自一个叫那格浦尔的小城市的中下阶层。我的父母，尤其是我的母亲工作非常努力，做出了很多牺牲，让我在那格浦尔最好的学校之一接受高质量的教育。我母亲现在也承认了，那是她能对我做的最糟糕的事。现在我找到了一种不一样的激情，并为此感到高兴。没有我妈妈，我不可能做得更好。
在这种情况下，在不知道问题的根本原因的情况下，我们很容易指责政府、体制、体育官员和我的母亲。印度是一个发展中国家。我们正在上升，而且上升得很快。大多数印度青年是第一代接受高质量教育的人。我们的父母不想让我们面对像他们这样的困难，他们认为教育是改善孩子生活的唯一途径。当半数以上的人口处于赤贫状态时，教育将优先于体育。看看这个国家体育人士的状况(显然不包括板球)，凭什么父母应该鼓励他们的孩子从事体育运动呢？我们只能责怪我们自己——这是一个只把体育视为爱好的社会，只专注于某些体育项目(如板球)，每四年才对体育状况提出一次质疑，以及腐败、裙带关系和无知的盛行。除非我们对体育的看法改变，否则不会有什么好的改变。
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Whitchurch Rajkumar
There is one sport that Indians can take up.
This sport does not require a ground to play in,
this sport results in high endurance and physical conditioning, muscle development.
This sport is best for a cramped country like India.
This sport makes men out of boys.
The sport has connections to ancient India.
The sport is called Muay Thai.

有一项运动是印度人可以从事的。
这项运动不需要场地，
这项运动的结果是提高耐力和身体素质，增强肌肉。
这项运动最适合印度这样拥挤的国家。
这项运动使男孩子们成为男子汉。
这项运动与古印度有联系。
这项运动被称为泰拳。

Wieslaw Popielarski
I was wondering too about why India with so huge population isn’t good in sports but now I see the point. Because it says that you as the nation have scientific tradition. You devote yourself to be good engineers or scientists like Bose or Ramanujan because you can and because you have good enough teachers. For African countries sports seems to be almost the only chance to change a social status. Spending money on education is much more reasonable than on sports. As an engineer you earn reasonable money but as a sportsman only when you are outstanding I guess.

我也想知道为什么人口众多的印度不擅长体育，但现在我明白了。因为你们国家有科学传统。你们献身于成为优秀的工程师或科学家，就像Bose或Ramanujan那样，因为你们能做到，也因为你们有足够的好老师。对非洲国家来说，体育运动似乎是改变社会地位的唯一机会。在印度把钱花在教育上比花在体育上要合理得多。作为一名工程师，你挣的钱还算合理，但作为一名运动员，我想只有当你很出色的时候才能赚更多的钱。

Daksh Babbar
I mostly agree, except for one point:
“When more than half of the population is stuck in abject poverty, education will be given preference over sports.”
China’s rate of poverty is currently 24% as compared to India’s 16%
As we all know, China outperforms us in sports literally everywhere. China won 46 medals as compared to India's 1 medal this Olympics.

我基本上同意，除了有一点: “当超过一半的人口处于赤贫状态时，教育将优先于体育。” 中国目前的贫困率为24%，而印度为16%。我们都知道，在体育方面中国几乎在任何项目上都比我们出色。中国获得了46枚奖牌，而印度只获得了1枚。
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Siama Mactavish
i agree with you 90%. but the other 5% goes to our diet(as we all know most professional sports in other countries take lots of protien diet, i mean non-veg food), while we most indians take loks of carbohydrates and fats on our diet. the other 5% goes to our mentality, regional background and outlook

我同意你说的百分之九十。但是剩下的5%都花在我们的饮食上了(我们都知道，其他国家大多数职业运动都需要大量的蛋白质，我的意思是非素食食物)，而我们大多数印度人在饮食中摄入碳水化合物和脂肪。另外5%取决于我们的心态、地区背景和眼界

Enrique Ali
The culture in India historically has focused more on intellectual pursuits (mathematics), spirituality (Himduism, Buddhism) and mind-body connectedness (yoga, meditation), and less on athletic prowess and sporting events. The sports that it has traditionally excelled in (cricket, field hockey, badminton) all have their roots in the colonial era when they were imported by the British. It's a matter of priorities. Many just aren't that interested in a variety of sports

历史上，印度文化更多地关注对知识的追求(数学)、灵性(印度教、佛教)和身心联系(瑜伽、冥想)，而较少关注体育实力和体育赛事。印度传统上擅长的体育项目(板球、曲棍球、羽毛球)都可以追溯到殖民时期的，当时这些项目被英国人引进。这是优先权的问题。许多人只是对各种运动不那么感兴趣