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U.S. Men's World Cup Team Rides a Wave of Jingoism

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By David Vine

"The U.S. team is not an allegory for the nation. The team and its victory are not signs of some unique “American character” that we have and that no one else possesses. They are not symbols of an inclusive, meritocratic melting pot nation (which has somehow, magically erased its history of slavery, genocide, and imperial expansion, as well as its present day reality of ongoing racism, war, impoverishment, and inequality).

The team is just that. A team of 23 men and their coaches and trainers who have, despite some nervous moments, done rather well in the first round of the world’s largest sporting event-cum-platform for nationalist dreaming and global capitalism."

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1 comment // U.S. Men's World Cup Team Rides a Wave of Jingoism

  • pakazak
    • -1
      pakazak  

    • bullseye.
      loved watching the WC. the US had a good showing and i had some pride going, but the jingoism has come to be the byline for everything "America" does.

      does the loss therefore mean that the tiny nation of Ghana has more of whatever it was that America supposedly had to get this far in the games?

    • 2 years ago

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