Julian Baggini - Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm...

Julian Baggini Zitate

Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.

Julian Baggini

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Große Sportereignisse und Schauspiele geben der nationalen Moral vielleicht einen Schlag in den Arm, aber sie sind zu vorübergehend und geschmacksspezifisch, um als robuste Symbole der Nation zu stehen.

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