LBC caller says England should lose World Cup because of multiracial team

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I basically agree with everything u just posted ^.

But I believe your real point (with this post) is to demonize White soccer fans who want Whiter (West European) national teams, no (?) Or attempt to make them feel foolish w/hair-splitting definitions of what the standard of indigenous is..
So I'm asking, if u believe the tribalism of the World Cup is eliciting a bad thing.. what we better a better formula, moving forward, your opinion (?)

But hang on, we’re talking about nations. Plenty of those nonwhite players are likely to be from those countries themselves. Why don’t they count?

Pointing out why a position is incoherent isn’t “demonising” btw. It’s just that the position is silly and wrong. Hth.
 
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What is LBC ?

Leading Britain’s Conversation - a secret research program cunningly designed to help identify all the stupid people in Britain, disguised as a radio station.
 
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I don't want a country to (solely) lose because of their ethnic composition.. but the Western European squads are basically fielding colonial teams...
Teams like Japan, Nigeria, Croatia etc seem to be more accurate representations of their nation's indigenous talent pool (?)
Nigeria is a divided country by culture too and to make it more complicated half of Nigerians are Muslim, the other half Christian. However, Nigeria has not broken apart despite this and during the world cup, Nigerians do not care what religion or culture the people are on their side. What matters is if they do well. That the same with the French and English side and most people do not care what background they are as long as they do well.
 
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Sure they are.
No they aren't. "Country" is roughly synonymous with "state" in that it refers to an entity with a centralized government of some sort that maintains exclusive control over some specific area of land. A nation is a group of people with a shared history, culture, language, (often) religion, customs, and usually ancestry. It's often used interchangeably with ethnicity, though nation implies a more political bent in my mind. If the two were synonymous, the term "nation-state" would be pretty redundant, wouldn't it?

For example, the Kurds are a nation that, at least until very recently, did not have a country. The Irish were the same before their independence. Many American Indian nations exist without countries. And so on.
 
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But I believe your real point (with this post) is to demonize White soccer fans who want Whiter (West European) national teams, no (?)
I know this wasn't addressed to me, but I hope that was his point somewhere in his post. Wanting a "Whiter" team is what I would expect to hear from the KKK or Neo Nazis.
 
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What does it matter if the teams are indigenous ?

What does that even mean ?

Does it hearken back to a time when humanity did not move and resettle itself in distant ... and/or not so distant lands ?

Indigenous = Garden of Eden???
 
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Why is it always white males who are racists?

I wish I knew how to post GIFs here. I love GIFs. We need that one with the black guy and all the question marks around his head that pop up ? ? ? ?
 
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That is entirely too ponderous in French. Just like the French too, to make everything ponderous and fancy, even a stupid sports cheer. lol

I watched France beat Uruguay partying at Mimosa Restaurant, in downtown Paris, quaffing beer, surrounded by about 200 passionate Frenchmen, joining in the chants of "Allez les Bleus!!!"

Of course, I could have said to myself "What a stupid sports cheer" and thought "what a bunch of jerks, trying to sound all fancy", and sat by myself in my room. Yeah, that probably would have been a lot more fun. lol
 
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I watched France beat Uruguay partying at Mimosa Restaurant, in downtown Paris, quaffing beer, surrounded by about 200 passionate Frenchmen, joining in the chants of "Allez les Bleus!!!"

Of course, I could have said to myself "What a stupid sports cheer", and sat by myself in my room. Yeah, that probably would have been a lot more fun. lol

I'm not really serious about this. ;) Of course if you're French you say "Allez les Bleus!!!" But it's still awfully fancy for a sports cheer. It needs to come with some kind of fancy sauce reduction instead of wings and beer. If it were food. heh
 
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I'm not really serious about this.
Sorry for misunderstanding, but it sounded identical to every other post you've made about Europeans, and you've made a lot of posts about Europeans since I've joined.

Were you serious about all the other posts that also insulted Europeans, or were they just joking in those too?

Of course if you're French you say "Allez les Bleus!!!" But it's still awfully fancy for a sports cheer.
OK, you've got me here, I'm truly confused. You appear to sincerely believe they are speaking French just to sound fancy. SMH.

It needs to come with some kind of fancy sauce reduction instead of wings and beer. If it were food. heh
Yeah, those crazy Parisians, speaking French.
 
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