Martin

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Do you share their history, language or ethnic origin? You don't belong to their people. Do they support you somehow, or can you vote for their president? It's one to think about it like "I'd like to see THEM win".

If it was ok then there would be just one world nation.
I'm not French, I'm not telling people that I am. (Although I do love to pretend that I speak French.) But I do feel like the national team is my team in the same way that Juve is my team. I don't know why or how, it's just the way it is. I realize that originally the idea was that every person had precisely one nationality, in times when travel and living abroad was very rare. But it no longer is. I've lived my life in 3 countries so far, who knows there may be more.

Also, I've always felt a certain attraction to France, the country, the language, the culture. Never lived there but always felt that if I had I would feel good. In fact, if I hadn't botched my French education in high school I would definitely have gone to college in France instead of here.
 

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I'm not French, I'm not telling people that I am. (Although I do love to pretend that I speak French.) But I do feel like the national team is my team in the same way that Juve is my team. I don't know why or how, it's just the way it is.

Also, I've always felt a certain attraction to France, the country, the language, the culture. Never lived there but always felt that if I had I would feel good.
i know what you mean martin, i support the french national team as well but with no true justification.
 

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I'm not French, I'm not telling people that I am. (Although I do love to pretend that I speak French.) But I do feel like the national team is my team in the same way that Juve is my team. I don't know why or how, it's just the way it is. I realize that originally the idea was that every person had precisely one nationality, in times when travel and living abroad was very rare. But it no longer is. I've lived my life in 3 countries so far, who knows there may be more.

Also, I've always felt a certain attraction to France, the country, the language, the culture. Never lived there but always felt that if I had I would feel good. In fact, if I hadn't botched my French education in high school I would definitely have gone to college in France instead of here.
That is a fine attitude to have, I don't get why there is so much hate directed at that around here
 

.zero

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That is a fine attitude to have, I don't get why there is so much hate directed at that around here
its due to the audacity of these Azzurri fanboys, IMO.

its annoying and dumb. their logic that "juventus is an italian team so we should support the NT as well" is the dumbest shit i've ever heard.
 

Dostoevsky

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Also, I've always felt a certain attraction to France, the country, the language, the culture. Never lived there but always felt that if I had I would feel good.
I feel the same for a couple of countries. I know what you mean and how you look at it but I think it's totally wrong and I'll never understand how can a smart people like yourself think like that.
 

Martin

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I feel the same for a couple of countries. I know what you mean and how you look at it but I think it's totally wrong and I'll never understand how can a smart people like yourself think like that.
So you think that your own "warm feelings" for other countries is wrong too? Why?
 

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No no, I think it's fine to support some other national team as long as it has drawn line somewhere. You can say "good, they won" but I don't think it's normal to say "good WE won", that's not right and it has nothing to do with Andy's argument from before.
 

Martin

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No no, I think it's fine to support some other national team as long as it has drawn line somewhere. You can say "good, they won" but I don't think it's normal to say "good WE won", that's not right and it has nothing to do with Andy's argument from before.
You realize you're arguing a tiny semantic point at this time?
 

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