It was a good old-fashioned Olympic scandal in Sochi, when South Korean figure skater Kim Yuna lost to a less experienced Russian. The judgment spurred millions of angry Tweets, and a Change.org petition protesting the result was the site’s fastest growing record—reportedly more than 1.2 million signatures in about 12 hours.
This Is Your Brain on Nationalism; What Effects Will Tighter U.S. Sanctions on Iran’s. Mideast Insurgents Enter the Age of Drone Warfare; Silicon Valley is a political force, or five of th. Libya’s Fate Remains Beholden to a Crude and Clums. May 09 (30) May 08 (30) May 07 (30) May 06 (25). Though nationalism is never wholly inclusive or exclusive, exclusive nationalism is a scenario where fixed identities — race, ethnicity or religion in much of the world — define a nation at.
Skating officials and fans around the worldhave questionedthe decision, but critics remain focused on the South Korean outrage, largely since their sports fanaticism has made headlinesbefore. Diehard citizens of countries like South Korea may seem odd to some; a post on Yahoo had the misguided headline: “Deal with it, South Korea.” But this injunction didn’t really understand the nature and depth of nationalist feeling—and the extent to which a sentiment often associated with extremism, even war, can be pervasive in the psychology of everyday life, including in sports fandom.
The ideology of nationalism has a complex history, originating in early-modern Europe and evolving in myriad ways as it's spread throughout the world. Today nationalism can be civic, ethnic, or a combination of the two, but all nationalists “carry strong attitudes and beliefs about their own people and about others, who feel their attachment to their nation passionately, and who even, at times, act with great cruelty against their enemies,” according to Joshua Searle-White in his book The Psychology of Nationalism. This us-versus-them mentality and its negative effects have been well examined from a political and historical standpoint, but surprisingly few have studied its psychological roots. From a social-psychological perspective, nationalist sentiment is thought to stem from two main points: attachment and identity.
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