AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
In general China doesn't have the culture to foster sports athletes. First of all Mao considered it Western and therefore bad. That's why Chinese don't look athletic in appearance. Then there's where's the motivation for Chinese to want to succeed at a sport? The way it is now there's authorities that go around to like schools and they spot children who fits a certain physical type or they're seen doing a specific skill that they believe would be good at certain sports. Then there's how the Chinese don't have a celebrity culture. If you think about it, being good at sports doesn't help you advanced in life. You can be good at a sport but it doesn't mean you can make money from it. That's where the celebrity culture comes in. The nature of celebrity is that only the fewest people possible could every attain it because the more people that become a celebrity, the more it gets diluted and is less valuable. The more famous you are, the more you get. The less famous you are, the less you get. A society can use a million engineers. A society doesn't need a million celebrities. So what's the chance of you becoming a celebrity because you're good at a sport? Not good. That's why it's frowned upon in Chinese/Asian cultures because they don't want to waste their lives on being something where chances are you're not going to succeed. The US having and valuing a celebrity culture is also why Americans are graduating less and less engineers and scientists. But because they value celebrity, they're willing to take the risk just to get the reward at the end.
