Intergroup Contacting in Sports: Chinese Wisdom in Strengthening Community Awareness

Abstract

With the evolution of globalization and the intensification of the challenge of anti-globalization, the national community and the community with a shared future for mankind are facing unprecedented challenges. Sports activities carry material and spiritual culture through physical practice, and on the basis of meeting the optimal conditions for intergroup contact, it is a powerful means of intergroup contact to build direct and indirect scenes of intergroup interaction. In China, sports promote cultural contacts between people of all ethnic groups in the Chinese nation in direct and indirect ways through their intergroup contacts, stimulate the emotional resonance of the Chinese nation, build a space for exchanges and integration of people of all ethnic groups through sports events, forge a sense of community of the Chinese nation, and build a stage of a community with a shared future for mankind that connects the world in this way. In response to the major changes in the world unseen in a century and strengthening the sense of community, all sports subjects should optimize the scene embedding mechanism of intergroup contact, improve the emotional connection efficiency of sports ceremonies, strengthen the driving force of sports events on cultural exchanges and exchanges, give full play to the role of sports in intergroup contact, forge a sense of community internally and externally, strengthen the sense of community with a shared future for mankind externally, promote the great unity of the people of the world, and respond to global challenges and risks.