{"id":692,"date":"2014-01-15T15:31:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T15:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/?p=692"},"modified":"2014-01-15T15:31:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T15:31:21","slug":"pcq-except-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/2014\/01\/15\/pcq-except-us\/","title":{"rendered":"PCQ: Except US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buffington does a great job of defining national culture and its construction and does a fascinating examination of the role of soccer in the US.\u00a0 He describes national identity saying that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;These assertions often evince the notion of national singularity through reference to two intertwined themes: internal homogeneity and external difference. The claim of internal homogeneity emphasizes collective similarities over domestic variation by highlighting what members of a national community share, such as common history, traditions, sense of place, and other mutual experiences (McClintock, 1997).&#8221; (pg. 136-7)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Buffington then talks about how the U.S. put themselves onto the in side by being indifferent and not care about soccer and the World Cup.\u00a0 He continues, &#8220;A writer noted that \u201cfor most youths, soccer means Mom dropping them at practice in the minivan and picking them up two hours later\u201d (Zeigler, May 29, 2002). (pg. 143)\u00a0 I think its really cool how he says, &#8220;If passion for the sport could unite entire countries (at least metaphorically) then indifference served a similar function for the United States.&#8221; (pg.147)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffington does a great job of defining national culture and its construction and does a fascinating examination of the role of soccer in the US.\u00a0 He describes national identity saying that: &#8220;These assertions often evince the notion of national singularity through reference to two intertwined themes: internal homogeneity and external difference. The claim of internal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":713,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/713"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}