patriotism: a virtue of the vicious

oscar wilde put it succinctly when describing his thoughts on patriotism and i concur with his rationale because it is nothing more than a term of discrimination dressed up in the ruined colours of one's native national flag. what one ordinarily can't do because it's discriminatory is suddenly acceptable to do when backed by the vitriolic passion for one's country. and i live in a country that's among the most guilty of this sanctioned xenophobia...

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thusly, while i won't necessarily be cheering against the u.s. in germany during the world cup, it is other nations--such as iran, or angola, or togo, or ghana, or cote d'ivoire, or england--that i fervently hope win the 2006 world cup that starts in germany in a little over two months...