Editing Westernization (section)

=== Sports importance in Westernization ===
{{See also|Western sports|Muscular Christianity}}

The importance of sports partly comes from its connection to Westernization. The insight by Edelman, R., & Wilson, W. (2017) explains “This new system of thought and practices imbued with positive values in the exertion and strategic deployment of the human body, embracing the Anglo-American notion that physical activity was meaningful in and of itself, conducive to values such as learning and character-building. Modern athletics and competitive sports, avatars of this new body culture, elicited largely willing local receptions in North Asia, though there were no doubt isolated cases of coercive foisting better characterized as cultural imperialism.”<ref>{{cite book |last1=Edelman |first1=Robert |last2=Wilson |first2=Wayne |title=The Oxford Handbook of Sports History |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-985892-7 |page=273 }}</ref>