Basketball Cultural Differences between China and the United States

I. The Current Situation of Basketball in China

Basketball has a good mass foundation in China, which can be called the world's largest. Among the college students in China, the number of participants in basketball is the largest, which is beyond even the national ball. China has various types of professional basketball teams and different levels of players, coaches and referees. the CBA is now in its 16th session from its birth to its prosperous development, attracting the attention of a wider range of basketball fans and all walks of life while practicing the commercialization of basketball in China in its step-by-step maturity. the success of the first China University Basketball Association (CUBA) League in 1998 provided a good opportunity for the outstanding basketball players who are in college campuses to participate in the sport. The first CUBA League was successfully held in 1998, which provided a platform for those outstanding basketball youths in university campuses to train both in literature and martial arts, and laid a solid foundation for the formation of a scientific and standardized cultivation and selection system for the reserve talents of Chinese basketball. It is worth mentioning that Chinese players have landed on the NBA field one after another, it can be said that the basketball really set off a new wave on the ground in China.

The formation of basketball culture in China and the United States

Traditional Chinese culture is based on the ideas of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, and its traditional sports culture is based on the health care, skills and performance as the basic model, and to advocate the etiquette, generosity, and peace as the value of the sports form. After the impact of the Renaissance Movement, the Cultural Enlightenment and the modern Industrial Revolution, the Western sports culture has gradually formed a sports form with competitive, utilitarian and recreational as the basic mode, and with the values of faster, higher and stronger as the value orientation. Chinese traditional sports culture and western sports culture are the two main types of world culture. Although basketball has the characteristics of transcending national boundaries and regions, the influence of culture has led to the connotation of Chinese and American basketball cultures being very different from each other. It is mainly characterized by the difference between "harmony and symmetry" and "struggle", the difference between "body" and "individual", and the difference between "seriousness and solemnity" and "seriousness and solemnity". The difference between "serious and solemn" and "joyful and pleasant".

Journal article classification query, in the journal library in China's basketball has always attached importance to the overall cooperation, the pursuit of the overall strength, but neglected to cultivate athletes with certain characteristics, personality. In particular, the traditional Chinese method of overall thinking has affected the creativity of athletes to a certain extent, which is manifested in the lack of individuality and characteristics of athletes, and the lack of creativity that should be engaged in basketball. These have affected the improvement of the overall level of basketball in China.

The United States is a country composed of immigrants, immigrants of different cultural backgrounds constitute a high degree of integration of the United States of America, a complex culture, the formation of the United States culture is unique to the "individual-oriented, rich in creativity, pluralistic hybridization" of cultural characteristics. In this cultural spirit, the United States basketball is not simple inheritance and inheritance, but bold creation, and constantly push the new. The emergence of a new offensive technology, another new defensive technology appeared, so that the United States basketball level has always been in the forefront of the world basketball development, showing that the basketball skills and tactics are not limited to a rigid model, but the pursuit of an improvisation, improvisation style, often with a strong personal performance color. American culture unique spirit of innovation and respect for personal performance of the cultural atmosphere and different thinking, inspired by the athletes in basketball in the desire to create and the ability to perform. This is one of the important reasons why the U.S. basketball has long been in a leading position.

Three, in the basketball culture of China and the United States, the development of China's basketball

1. Scientific and reasonable basketball talent training and selection system

The development of the United States basketball for more than a hundred years, the talent training and selection system has been developed quite complete. This is a reference value for Chinese basketball. Many students in the U.S. receive amateur training from the age of 1 to 2 and can participate in summer basketball camps organized by NBA stars. There, children can receive a more standardized initial training. Varsity basketball teams exist in most high schools and have a well-established competition system. From elementary school to the end of high school, student basketball players are at a very high level. The best of these student-athletes are selected to play in the NCAA, where they are one step closer to the NBA, the dream of young people. In addition to this, the United States has an important cultural component to the basketball selection process. We should establish a different stage of the talent ladder from elementary school to university, and pay attention to the convergence of each link, can not be disjointed, to take into account the overall development of young basketball players. In this way, we still have to face the problem that these varsity coaches must be well-equipped, and the supporting facilities must also be kept up. On the premise of not affecting learning, a certain number of matches should be arranged to prepare for the selection of talents at the next level.

2. Playing the function of media to promote the development of Chinese basketball

The high development of media in today's society makes people get timely information in a very short time, and at the same time brings the joy of sports to people at the fastest speed. People all over the world can watch the NBA Finals at the same time and share the joy of high-level basketball games. Chinese basketball should not only learn from American basketball in talent training, operation and management, but also learn from their experience in spreading basketball culture. American basketball culture will not reject the good things of other nations, as Yao Ming led a group of foreigners to practice Tai Chi in the NBA's promotional video, in which one of the mascots fell down in a funny way, which caters to the taste of the westerners and also reflects the trend of the times - the world is looking to the East. Our own CBA league is slowly maturing and more and more people are paying attention to it and loving it. If we can cooperate with the media from all walks of life to produce high-quality basketball programs with Chinese characteristics, it will definitely bring Chinese basketball to a new height.

3. Establish and improve the transfer system of professional basketball players

The NBA has stipulated that players can be transferred at the beginning of its establishment in 1946. This free and fair transfer system has made the NBA's games very suspenseful and everlasting for decades, and the value of the players has been rising, and the club owners can also get a lot of income from it. At present, the transfer system of CBA still has some problems in management and regulations. We should carry out fair and reasonable transfers under the conditions of formal training and selection system, separation of management and organization, and clear rights and responsibilities. In this way, the level of Chinese basketball will continue to rise rapidly and be loved by more basketball fans.

The NBA has become popular all over the world, and the Chinese have started to play a splendid chapter on the NBA stage. The basketball culture of China and the United States is gradually blending, and the boundaries between nationalities are gradually blurring. The Chinese people, who have always been "introverted" and "moderate", are also y infatuated with the passionate American professional basketball and have established their own professional league, CBA, and college basketball league, CUBA, which have shown great success on the basis of the good foundation of the Chinese basketball industry. China's basketball industry has shown a good foundation today, but we have to rely on our unique Chinese wisdom to receive, choose, develop it, and contribute to the development of the world's basketball industry.