Should states care about the performance of their national team at a global sporting competition, such as the Olympics or the World Cup? Why or why not?
I believe that states should care somewhat about their nations teams but not enough to the point where if the team fails at something that they are publicly humiliated.
The way teams interact on the field as well as off the field is like how the states interact during diplomatic meets. If a state is strict on their team then they most likely are going to be strict in their diplomatic views. If a team was to fail in their nations eyes because they lose a game and are humiliated because of it then that speaks a lot about how the nation looks to the rest of the world.
If the nation doesn’t mind as because their team tried their best and represented their nation well by how they played and by how they treated the other team then that would make the nation look better in the diplomatic views of other nations.
I believe that it would be best if national teams were able to represent their nations in both the sport and their diplomatic views without the option of being criticized for one loss. They should be the bringers of good faith and hope, not of bad faith and deceit.
This is really good and is one of the questions that I actually did. i like how you connect everything to something because it does say a lot about how the country itself may act and look to everyone else in the world which is right. That sounds really good what you say about how the nations act because that would be saying so much about how they would be in a diplomatic situation.
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