What Is Participation Trophy?

Shawn scott is the author of millennials in the moments that made us, a cultural history of the us. He looks at how sports became an important part of American culture after world war one. Scott: Kids and parents become overly competitive and start orienting their entire lives around these competitions. And by the time youth sports are really an established thing, americans have become kind of exhausted by competition. You could imagine why there would be a cultural response that says maybe we don't need to double down on that right now.