Cross-ethnic friendships formed during fight training persist beyond the gym into fighters’ daily lives

Evidence

In the Fighters Class people develop intimate bonds of friendship with those whom the logic of “ethnic absolutism” (Gilroy 1987) would suggest are impossible and dangerous. Crucially, the aforementioned convivial friendships are not contained within the field-site, as people carry these friendships with them outside of the space, regularly socialising outside of the gym, going to one another’s homes, spending time with each others families, spending Birthday’s together, going to dinner, watching fights together, or even just getting a coffee after training. — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 56

Categorization

• SEED: Aessay angle: shared physical hardship and embodied cooperation as a more powerful anti-racist force than discursive tolerance education — the body doing what ideology can’t.
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 56
• XREF: connects to: Physical training to fight can forge bonds that resist racial thinking — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 17; Shared combat training can erase racial and gendered hierarchies through bodily friendship. — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 32; Muay Thai gym friendships extend into private life, not just public tolerance. — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 46 (+3 more)

Related

• Shared combat training can erase racial and gendered hierarchies through bodily friendship. (similarity 0.89)
• Physical training to fight can forge bonds that resist racial thinking (similarity 0.88)
• Muay Thai gym friendships extend into private life, not just public tolerance. (similarity 0.86)
• Muay Thai gyms’ partner-based training structure fosters mutualistic bonds that override ascriptive difference. (similarity 0.84)
• Intense intergroup conflict overrides interpersonal friendships between opponents (similarity 0.81)
• Commitment to sport functions as a status marker that supersedes race within fighting gyms. (similarity 0.80)
• Intimate bodily togetherness flattens perceived racial difference (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Intense intergroup conflict overrides interpersonal friendships between opponents #complicates (0.80) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2677
• Anti-racist gym communities tolerate racist incidents when social bonds outweigh the offense #exemplifies (0.78) — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 81