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To the ends of the earth, cricket followed the Union Jack, which explains the game’s current popularity in Australia, South Asia, and the West Indies. Rugby football flourishes in other postcolonial cultures, such as New Zealand and South Africa, where the British once ruled. It was, however, association football’s destiny to become the world’s most widely played modern sport. From the British Isles, modern sports were diffused throughout the world.
- It is unlikely that the 7th-century Islamic conquest of North Africa radically altered the traditional sports of the region.
- Sports that originally began elsewhere, such as tennis , were modernized and exported as if they too were raw materials imported for British industry to transform and then export as finished goods.
- Activists for education and the war on drugs encourage youth sport as a means to increase educational participation and to fight the illegal drug trade.
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