if you are asking who gave them participation trophies youll find that it was a small subset of people in that generation who starting doing that while everyone else complained about it.
if you are asking who gave them ANY trophies youll find that such a practice has been going on since trophies could be made and even before that hunters would make trophies out of the less usable parts of kills to show their accomplishments.
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trophies in general are a good thing. They give someone something to strive for and further something tangible to appreciate after they succeed. Participation trophies however have been shown to make the person receiving it feel worse about losing rather than feel better about losing. An argument can also be made about it cheapening the trophies given to the people who got actual trophies but idk of any studies looking into how the existence of participation trophies affects people that got normal ones.
if you are asking who gave them ANY trophies youll find that such a practice has been going on since trophies could be made and even before that hunters would make trophies out of the less usable parts of kills to show their accomplishments.
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trophies in general are a good thing. They give someone something to strive for and further something tangible to appreciate after they succeed. Participation trophies however have been shown to make the person receiving it feel worse about losing rather than feel better about losing. An argument can also be made about it cheapening the trophies given to the people who got actual trophies but idk of any studies looking into how the existence of participation trophies affects people that got normal ones.