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Just as Dallas Mavericks fans cheer for Dirk Nowitzki (German) and Steve Nash (Canadian), so Madrilenos and Mancunians don't give a hoot about the nationality of a star, so long as he is playing for Real or United. That's indicative of a larger trend. In social matters, Europeans every day are becoming more "European" and less hidebound by national traditions--they worship the same sports stars, they drink the same wines, they dance to the same electronic beats, they vacation on the same beaches. Things go wrong only when attempts are made to craft European institutions...
...Just as Dallas Mavericks fans cheer for Dirk Nowitzki (German) and Steve Nash (Canadian), so Madrilenos and Mancunians don't give a hoot about the nationality of a star, so long as he is playing for Real or United. That's indicative of a larger trend. In social matters, Europeans every day are becoming more "European" and less hidebound by national traditions - they worship the same sports stars, they drink the same wines, they dance to the same electronic beats, they vacation on the same beaches. Things go wrong only when attempts are made to craft European institutions...
...neighborhood final clubs, some steamy party in Leverett Towers—you probably don’t think twice about seeing a straight couple making out in those contexts, but would you be so blithe about a queer pairing? Would you wrinkle your nose at two boys? Would you hoot and holler at two girls? Would you squint and stare at a couple whose genders you couldn’t figure out? These are the double standards which today’s kiss-in hopes to highlight. Certainly, we understand that different codes of conduct apply to behavior...
...special obligation to spearhead the assault on discrimination at Augusta simply because his multiracial background supposedly makes him especially sensitive to all forms of oppression. That's where the Magic Negro angle comes in: Woods is being asked to solve a problem that most blacks don't give a hoot about just because some powerful white people care deeply about it. They include the Times's executive editor, Howell Raines, who grew up in Alabama during the era of resistance to desegregation. Raines' well-known liberal sympathies prompted great suspicion that two articles by sports columnists were spiked because they...
...student body really gave a hoot about educational issues here, then things like the CUE elections would be public, and much discussed, affairs. But they are, instead, conducted in private, followed with even the slightest interest by very few, and particpated in by even fewer...