07-05-2006, 06:33 PM
Quote:Hmmm. As I despise National States, better the concept "National State" as a timeworn and redundant thing, interesting only to mental dinosaurs who, hopefully, become extinct very soon, I do not see a deeper sense in the FIFA Worldcup. However, I see Europe win it, so in that sense I can be happy again. Wouldn´t it have been a much better picture, if all the European fans had held up the blue flag with the golden stars?
Won't work for me. I am German first, European second.
And I don't see myself as dinosaur. I have lived in Sweden for several years and can imagine living in other countries than Germany again, I write novels in English, my ancestry is part Russian, I watched the play Italy/Australia in an Italian restaurant and joined them singing Fratelli d'Italia ... I'm European enough, but Germany is the place I have grown up, German the language I spoke first, and I never deny my identity as German when my country gets attacked by prejudiced nationalists of other European nations (something I have experienced while traveling). That doesn't mean I think Germany is in any way better than any other nation. It's just my point of identification: a German European, if you want. :wink:
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