“How Football Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization is an analysis of the substitution between soccer and the new global economy. He incorporates three parts of the book, the first being Foer trying to explain “the failure of globalization to erode ancient hatreds in the game’s great rivalries” by addressing economics in the second part of his text. Lastly, the final part uses soccer “to defend the virtues of old-fashioned nationalism” as kind of a way to bluntly state the “return of tribalism.” Because Foer took the readers on a trip from stadiums around the world trying to show the everyday events of society, he did so from political and economic standpoints. In the United States, soccer is a global wide event that somehow gives itself to explaining the effects that globalization not only has on one country, but society in a whole.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
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There are many trends that can be see internationally. I think the author choosing soccer didn't do his claim justice. Although it is currently growing in populariting their is no data showing the long term when or if is becomes unpopular. That is a big area that could have proved his claim.
ReplyDeleteI agree, I thought about the olympics and how there are many other sports that countries play.
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly what came to mind too ^^ Lauren
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