英语文章需要帮助概括主要内容Basketball Builds a BridgeBELL GARDENS,California.Kobe Bryant can control a basketball game.He plays guard for the Los Angeles Lakers.Now,he has a relationship with China.Bryant admires China.China has goodwill toward him.Bryant is acting as a bridge between East and West.He is a part of several cross-cultural exchanges.In the U.S.,Bryant brings Chinese culture to schoolchildren.He created the Kobe Bryant Family Foundation.It helps fund

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Basketball Builds a Bridge
BELL GARDENS,California.Kobe Bryant can control a basketball game.He plays guard for the Los Angeles Lakers.Now,he has a relationship with China.Bryant admires China.China has goodwill toward him.Bryant is acting as a bridge between East and West.He is a part of several cross-cultural exchanges.
In the U.S.,Bryant brings Chinese culture to schoolchildren.He created the Kobe Bryant Family Foundation.It helps fund a Chinese culture program through a program called After-School All-Stars.Students take Mandarin language lessons,Chinese cooking courses,and martial arts classes.
Sometimes,Bryant stops by to shoot hoops with the kids.
Encouraging familiarity with Chinese language and culture is important,according to Professor Susan Jain.Jain teaches Chinese language at a school in Los Angeles.Experts say that the Asian country is growing in importance.That means Americans are doing more business with Chinese companies.
About 150 students at five schools take part in the language and culture program.Shannon Mayock works with the After-School All-Stars.This program provides extra educational support to certain students.Mayock says the group hopes to offer its program to more schools over the next few years.
Bryant's work with After-School All-Stars has to do with his love for China.China has eagerly taken in the basketball star.China has the world's largest population.Bryant is well known there.The country got to know him during the 2008 Olympic Games.These were in Beijing.Bryant was a leader on the U.S.basketball team.His National Basketball Association (NBA) jersey is the top-seller in China.It outsells the jersey of NBA-star Yao Ming.Ming is from Shanghai.
Nike,Inc.is happy about the goodwill between Bryant and China.That's because Nike is Bryant's shoe sponsor.Nike uses Bryant's growing fame.He is in many Chinese ads and stores.
Bryant's interest in the After-School All-Stars program is about more than just basketball.It's about more than learning Chinese culture.More important,Bryant said,is that young Americans become familiar with places beyond where they live.Bryant himself went to school in Italy.His father played basketball there after leaving the NBA.Living in another country taught Bryant to be open toward other cultures.
Dictionary
cross-cultural (adjective) having to do with the way of life of more than one group of people
foundation (noun) a group that helps raise money for a cause
population (noun) all the people living in a place
relationship (noun) the way two people or groups get along\
sponsor (noun) a person or group that gives money to support an event or a person