HOW AMERICANS SPEND

THEIR LEISURE TIME

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 CONtENt
Sports and American Health and Fitness
FIRST Values FORTH

Competition Carried to The Impact of

SECOND an Extreme? Television FIFTH

Recreation: A Time for The Impact of the

THIRD Self-Improvement Internet LAST

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 1.
SPORTS AND AMERICAN VALUES

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 1.
SPORTS AND AMERICAN VALUES

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 sports and american values

✘ Sports plays a major

role in Americans
lifestyle.
✘ Organized sports
express the basic
values of Americans
and attempt to
strengthen them.

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 The most popular
organized sports in
the United States are:
Football, Basketball
and Baseball.

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 sports and american values

Sports give an equal The

chance to people of largest number of American foot
different races and ball and basketball players 
economic are African-Americans and
backgrounds to do the about one quarter
best that they can. of baseball players are Hispanics
or Latinos.

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 sports and american values

✘ Americans believe that learni ✘ Hard work = Hustle, Persi
ng how to be the winner stence, Never quitting.
in sport’s competitions is
necessary to compete in later
✘ Physical courage = Being
life. tough, Having guts
✘ Organized sports are
✘ Hard work and physical cour part of traditional basic A
age are the merican values.
important elements
of competitive ethic
inorganized sports.

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 2.
COMPETITION CARRIED TO
AN EXTREME

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 2- Competition Carried to an Extreme?

Sports in the United States

are glorified . But, there
are others who are
especially critical of the
power of sports to corrupt
when certain things are
carried to excess.

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 There is a long tradition of coaches and players
who have just done this

Vince Lombardi Woody Hayes

“You never win a game “When you're winning - you
unless you beat the guy in don't need any friends.
front of you. The score on the When you're losing - you
board doesn’t mean a thing. don't have any friends
That’s for the fans. You’ve got anyway.” 
to win the war with the man
in front of you. You’ve got to
get your man.”

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When the idea of winning in sports is
carried to excess, however,
honorable competition can turn into
disorder and violence.

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 We can see violence in
American sports, especially in
Football.
In the South, boys start playing
tackle football in elementary
schools, bringing the risks of
competitive pressure to nine- and
ten-year-olds.

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An other criticism of professional Now professional sports are more
sports is that the players and the about money and less about team
team owners get too much money, loyalty. College football and
while fans have to pay more and basketball programs are also affected
more for tickets to the games. by big money.

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 To improve the player’s performance, sports organization
adopted the pressure to win which led the players to use
enhancing drugs.

John Rocker David Bell

The use of these drugs puts the health of the athletes in

danger and it is ethically wrong. It goes against the American
values of equality of opportunity and fair competition.

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 3.
REACTION: A TIME FOR SELF
IMPROVEMENT

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 RECREATION-TIME FOR SELF-IMPROVEMENT
Recreation does not encourage competition

American prefer Recreation that require a high level of

physical activities: jogging, running, tennis, skiing
Physical fitness: work out at sport clubs- lifting weight,
swimming,physical squash, racquetball, aerobic
exercise, treadmill, rowing machines, stair-stepper

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 Why American do choose to spend their leisure
time on such kind of high-level activities?
✘ They carry over belief of hard work into the world of
recreation and play
✘ Well-known expression “ We like to work hard and
play hard”
✘ Long distance races are Boston and New York
marathon, however there are variety of races in
other big and small cities. Most races are open to
all kind of ages including young old alike en
those in wheelchair.
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 American self-improvement in sport

Jogger Try to be able People spend

determined to to play as their vacation
improve the much as sports time learn a
distance they as possible new sport
can run

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American spend their spare time for recreation
also depending on their income

Americans making over

Those making less than
$100,000 are most likely
50.000$ a year watch
to argue in favor of
TV, movies, listen to
cosmetic surgery, luxury
radio and relaxing,....
types of sports,.......

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total success!

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American spend their spare time for recreation
also depending on their income

Those making less than

Wealthy people spend
50.000$ a year watch TV,
their leisure time: Running
movies, listen to radio and
doing YOGA, playing
relaxing. One thing wealthy
racquet, golfing and the
and impoverished
thing they do least
American do have in
watching religion-focused
common is Writing- enjoy
TV...
for personal interest..

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 Cultural activities
go to attend live visit museum, hear
symphony theater lectures, participate
artistic activities such
concert. performance as painting

performing music, education program offer a writing, art,

dancing, weaving, wide range of classes for those
needlework, candle interested in cooking, learn a self-defense,
making, wood carving, foreign language bird-watching
quilting, other handicraft

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 4.
HEALTH AND FITNESS

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 Obesity epidemic in
US has been so for
more than 2 decades,
continues to increase
despite multiple
attempts and
recommendations.

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Nearly 40% of all adults
over the age of 20 in the
U.S are currently obese,
Some states fall into
alarming situation with
more than 35% with
obesity such as
Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama, Kentucky,
West Virginia…

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 CAUSES

Huge amount
Eating Habit Lifestyle of conflicting
information

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EATING HABIT

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 According to a
survey from the
Centers for Disease
Control and
Prevention, 36.6%
of Americans eat
some kind of fast
food on any given
day for both 3 main
meals and snacks
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Busy Lifestyle

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 Since many women are
working now, families are
eating lot of fast food, frozen
dinner or restaurant takeouts.
In addition, people having
low income and living far
from work will have busy
schedule, they feel eating
right becomes a secondary
point. So stopping at a fast
food chain on the way is
much faster alternative.

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Huge amount of conflicting information

For 30 years, government encouraged

people to eat a diet high in carbohydrates
and low in fat but it didn’t work for many
people. In the early 2000s, high-protein,
low-carbohydrate diets became popular.

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 5.
IMPACT OF TELEVISION ON HOW
AMERICANS SPEND LEISURE TIME

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 Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, American time use survey

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- Watching TV makes up the largest per cent
of leisure time use of American

+ 2012: 55%
+ 2015: 56%
+ 2018: 54%

- It means Americans spend over half of their

leisure time on watching television, and it
will have a bad impact on Americans in long
term.

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, American time use survey

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 THE IMPACT OF TELEVISION

❑ Most American girls imitate the stars of movies and TV

shows.
❑ The more people watch TV, the less they are likely to
exercise.
❑ For children, they can see the mount of sex or
violence on TV

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Many teenage girls have
become insecure about
their bodies and so
obsessed with losing
weight.

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People who spend a long
time on a couch watching Place your screenshot here

TV and eating snacks

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 THE IMPACT OF TELEVISION

❑ Most American girls imitate the stars of movies and TV

shows.
❑ The more people watch TV, the less they are likely to
exercise.
❑ For children, they can see the mount of sex or
violence on TV

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- This type of content on TV have a effluence on their
mindset, thought and behavior

- Most American parents find difficult in persuading their

children to spend less time watching TV because they
are taught Americans place such a high value on
individual freedom.

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 6.
IMPACT OF INTERNET ON HOW
AMERICANS SPEND LEISURE TIME

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The leisure time Americans spend on the
Internet is on the rise

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 APP/WEB ON
LIVE TV A RADIO
4.2 hrs SMARTPHONE 1.8 hrs
2.4 hrs

Average time spent with media per US adult per day

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 REASONS

DIVERSE
IoT ERA ENTERTAINMENT CHEAP

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INTERNET INVOLVED
IN ALMOST INDOOR
LEISURE ACTIVITIES

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