What Is Nationalism?

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10. Sports Nationalism

Sports are well known to have the ability to bring people together. They can be very effective at bringing together people from different nations, while they can also be very effective at doing the complete opposite. People will often have a strong association with their national sporting teams and have strong desires that their nation can come out on top.

In some cases, sports have even been used to help strengthen bonds between nations and their colonies. Soldiers were asked to get involved in sporting events and the local population were encouraged to join in. One example of this is the game of cricket, which is a national sport of multiple nations that were once, or still are, part of the British Empire.

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