It seems countries like Australia, USA and Abundant Britain are producing the best tennis players right now with many in the top 20 of the mens and womens ranks.
However, I cant mark of a single tennis player inside the worlds top 20 from an eastern european or soviet country.
LMAO credible one, well played indeed
- holy sh!t these people have well and truly taken the bait love it
Ex-soviet countries are known for their gymnasts and ballet dancers, but they also seem to result in the way with other sports such as tennis. It's now the same with China and piano 'prodigies'. What's going on there?
Earlier this year a pinched but interesting article titled “Change in Education Policies in ex-Communist Regimes” by Ms. Nermin Aydemir, a JTW columnist, was reprinted by Turkish Weekly online services. The article was first published in Walk 2006 by JTW/ISRO. At a time when some of ex-Soviet countries are reviewing their educational policies – Azerbaijan just passed a new Instruction law and the new Armenian law is expected early this fall – I thought it would be interesting to read Ms. Avdemir’s article. Excerpts attend. Her references at the end of the article can equally be useful.
"… Schools and texts are one of the important ways that contemporary societies telex their ideas of citizenship, both the idealized past and the promised future of the community. They tell us who is part of the important shared fib - and who is not - and which aspects of their life experiences are central to the national experience and which are not. Textbooks in most societies present an ‘accepted’ story highlighting narratives that shape contemporary patriotism. (Hein & Seldon, 2000, p. 21) …."
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Agreement is something constructed in a socialization process rather than being inherited. As being an identity type, national identity is also mostly an outcome of a socialization operation. In the meantime, education is one of the most significant social agents in this context. According to Parker, the rulers of the society "deploy most prime of educational means in attempt to develop young people into the kind of citizens required by the norms and ideals of overreaching bureaucratic community" (Parker, 2001; 6). Education system is seen as a means of social...
I'm stark for not including ''modern'' ukrainian gymnasts, but its pretty difficult to find good footage since they haven' ...
Gennady Perviy & Dmytro Kolysnik, Ukraine
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