“All ideas of nationhood are fictions. The fiction cultivated by the #Canadian studying abroad may be more likely than that of the Canadian educated at home to eschew regionalism, depending on a more overarching, all-embracing idea of nationhood.”
“All ideas of nationhood are fictions. The fiction cultivated by the #Canadian studying abroad may be more likely than that of the Canadian educated at home to eschew regionalism, depending on a more overarching, all-embracing idea of nationhood.”
I was absolutely dumbfounded at the time.
There was so much revealing racism and more in that statement, but also American Exceptionalism and willingness to do anything to get a gold medal.
It’s also crazy because the reason why Americans win so many medals is because an American decided to make a bunch of swimming events which rich white Americans have an advantage in because many minorities in the US — including blacks — don’t live in communities with access to pools, let alone in their homes.