Tuesday, June 18, 2002
The Last Acceptable Form of Nationalism?
Anne Applebaum's column for Slate today, "Soccer, the last acceptable form of nationalism" is truly must reading. A sample: "Certainly there isn't anywhere in Germany you can go to shout, 'Deutschland! Deutschland!' except a soccer stadium."
Of course, this last refuge for patriotic sentiments does not apply to Americans. Washington Post sports(!) columnist Sally Jenkins, who lectured her readers "about anger over what is perceived as the stubborn American refusal to recognize what matters to other people -- be it steel tariffs, soccer or an injustice in speedskating."
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