World Cup Fever: How malleable is German identity?
Germany's World Cup victory has unleashed a new wave of patriotism, as well
as a new identity crisis. This patriotism might only be as good as the boundaries it is ready
and able to redefine. An act of flowing colors and neighbor-to-neighbor high-fives may have
started a new understanding of who is allowed into the club, but policies and institutions need
to take it one step further. Otherwise, patriotism is just as good as nationalism, which rules
by way of exceptionalism. In the type of inclusive global society many of us would love to
build, there is no room for exceptionalism...
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