Friday, November 13, 2009
In watching this movie it is obvious to see there are two different forms of nationalism. The first being with German's Olympic Games. It stated that one of Germany's main reasons for wanting the games was to prove they were not the old Germany that consisted of Nazism and racism. This could have been the best way for them to prove their loyalty to the rest of the countries. In the end Palestinians had different ideas as to who would honored in these Olympic games and also turning it back on Germany. The Palestinians decided to take hostage some Olympic athletes from Israel. This was there way of showing nationalism, by plotting a terrorist attack. They showed their nationalism by doing this in thinking it would put their country on the map and show their dominance. They succeeded in this plot but in the end with killing all hostages but in the end left a bad message with their country with what seems could be like forever. I think this video really showed us a little bit of racism and nationalism and how it should be viewed. Especially in the way the Americans see it and how we want our nationalism to be viewed.
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Can it really be called nationalism if it is used in a manner. I mean i guess it can, but its kind of dumb because terrorist usually have a love for there country, and we just call that terrorism, but when the do it at teh olympic games now its called a form of nationalism.
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