Gail Brock wrote:
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> Sports involve an emotional us-against-them competition where the only difference between the competitors is that one side says they play for us. I agree that the nationalistic displays reflect support for nationalism as much as create it, although the strengthening effect of having reflections for your beliefs and feelings shouldn't be underrated.
I think this is of great importance. In reference to the effects of ideology there _always_ exists this ambiguity about whether a given event or belief causes or reflects 'reality.' And the resolution in all such cases is, I think, roughly what Gail suggests here.
Carrol