The most successful teams at Europe’s soccer championship comprise diverse players, often thanks to immigration. Could that be influencing fans’ views of nationalism?
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Sporting events form a vital space where Americans display their ‘civil religious devotion,’ according to a scholar of religion and sports.
The Australian Defence Force is in desperate need of more recruits. How could they get more Gen Z people on board?
For Brits, ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ evokes nostalgia for a vanished, golden age. But Americans experience it as a stirring sendoff into a hopeful future.
A national anthem is supposed to reinforce a nation’s identity. Are we fine with singing Advance Australia Fair for another 50 years?
Opposition activists have previously been accused of treason and unpatriotic behaviour for expressing concerns about human rights abuses.
Nationalism and patriotism are sometimes treated as synonyms, but they have very different meanings.
Many religions have been used to prop up nationalism, and Catholicism is no exception, as a Jesuit priest and scholar explains.
Music has often been used as a political tool to urge Kenyans to forget the sins of colonial and post-colonial regimes.
A group of Ukrainian teens writes about what they will do when the war ends. ‘The first thing that I would do is play the piano. I will play as long as I can,’ writes one.
‘Freedom convoy’ protesters are turning the language of freedom against their own governments. The implications and repercussions of this are enormous.
The iconic image may have originated with a meat supplier named Samuel Wilson. Or not.
A scholar of African American studies explores how the former secretary of state, who died at 84, dealt with what WEB DuBois described as the ‘double-consciousness’ of being Black and American.
How can settler-Canadians cheer for their country at the Tokyo Olympics after the recent discoveries of hundreds of unmarked graves of children who attended Indian Residential Schools?
From medieval thinkers to James Baldwin, loving one’s country has never meant you can’t be critical of it too.
If Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory are out of step with the times, perhaps some sensitively chosen pop songs could fit the bill instead.
As the US battled the 1918 influenza pandemic, some communities staged contentious battles against wearing masks. Sound familiar?
For some viewers, President Trump’s July 3 speech at Mount Rushmore represented love of country. Others saw it very differently.
How should Asian Americans respond to rising anti-Asian racist actions? History may offer some lessons during the pandemic.
A teen asks why so many young people don’t stand for the Pledge of Allegiance or the national anthem. The data shows that young Americans today do view the U.S. more negatively than older generations.
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