stempniaksen
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- Oct 12, 2008
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I agree. When Team Canada goes on the ice, or in the pool, or on the track, the pitch, I turn into a monster.
Vancouver 2010 was an intensely nationalistic experience. Canada hasn't been the same way since. It isn't perfect, but I would rather being more nationalistic than less, warts and all.
Day to day life being nationalistic I think has more pluses than minuses. Canadians lack of nationalism in the past gave the world a very different perception of what it meant to be Canadian. All this "Canadians are polite" BS, "Canadians are peacemakers" BS, was well used if untrue. Vancouver 2010 changed a lot of that. Polite my ass, we cheered, we boasted, we displayed our national pride, always under cloaks in the past for fear of offending someone or another country.
Canada of today is not the Canada of the past. But one thing Canada had always been was correct. Being on the right side . You pick on our friends and we have your back. My friends are going to war? Sign me up. We all stick up for each other, being part of the good guys. You need a million soldiers in WWII? Hmm, give me a little time but we will be there. There are only 12 million of us.
Nowadays, Canada has lost its way and, to me, at time is unrecognizable.
Can you explain the bolded? There's obviously pluses to nationalism, but there's always the dark cloud of "nationalism to an extreme" hanging overhead, imo.
I don't think you're wrong either, the Vancouver Olympics were a fantastic experience and a great time to be Canadian. I just worry that it's quite easy to reach a point of "too much of a good thing" and nationalism leading to negatives (not unlike what we're seeing in the states currently).