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Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Week 5 - Headgear Ban No More?

Over the past several years, there has been some discussion about how racism and concerns over the role of ethnicity has played a key role in people's opinions about other athletes and their own beliefs in impressions of certain people. And that proves to be the case with this week's story.

However, after many years of refusing to accepting this section of controversy, the NBA has become very close to stopping a ban on religious headgear because of how the players want to express their own type of heritage, despite of some elements of islamophobia, or better known as a fear of Muslims. A somewhat big number of the players, including Kenneth Faried of the Denver Nuggets, have declared themselves as Muslim/Islam and the league is officially looking closer to welcoming more religions as they progress.

Plus, the official declaration of what the meaning of "freedom of speech" set the tone for the demographic ethnic group to have a say in what their impression of the "freedom of religion" in which they decide to make America a great example of what a free country should look like as long as they have their own place in the world as a whole.

It has been said that hijabs and turbans are now likely to be welcome to be worn by any player or audience member that would attend any game in the premier basketball league, as long as a committee approves of this. However, even with the legalization of these headgear, there is still no escape for the harsh reality known as Trump's controversial ban on these Muslims thanks to many heavy concerns.

Many critics can argue that this would be a step in the wrong direction because of how politically correct these rules sound and they look to take a stand against this rule for any thing that they can speak for. The NBA has not let any of the guys show up in that stuff for 20 years until recently when it appeared they demanded a better say at what ethnicity they are trying to represent.

The term "stacking" may become the best angle at how people could be organized because of their own stereotypes/impressions of other people, with the headgear rules being great demonstrations of this.

As an example of this, author Nick Trujillo once wrote in his article of ethnicity for a long time now with an example being that stacking is a factor thanks to how unpacked it has become over the past several years thanks to all of the identity groups being supported by those things. That is a great example of sorting people through these things in my opinion.

He was talking about his own experience with the ethnicity part in that through his own experiences as an athlete. I think that all of this would be an example of how this week's commodification that the term "ethnography" has a good meaning of people's culture.

According to chapter six in the book, evidence has proof that there has been many certain ways the media can be very strict about different types of groups that have their own interests. Yet, I believe this is better known as the way to go in this week's discussion of racial groups.

This would call for the change in headgear policy to be made in the NBA and more welcoming of people of very different ethnic groups.

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