Posts Tagged ‘ nationality ’

Ambient Nationality

October 26, 2010
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Ambient Nationality

For all the interest in using foreign media to immerse oneself in a "foreign" nationality, perhaps what a lot of us want/need is simply a background, faint, weak, unobtrusive ambience.
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Nationalism, nul points, or, How Eurovision Makes for a Better World

June 1, 2010
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Nationalism, nul points, or, How Eurovision Makes for a Better World

The Eurovision Song Contest has the unparalleled capacity to make that skeleton of nationalism a little less scary – by putting it into a camp costume and acoustically accompanying it with pop music
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Simon Says Cheerio

January 13, 2010
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Simon Says Cheerio

Simon Cowell is leaving American Idol. But ironically to keep the "American" in American Idol, the show needs Simon, or at least an angry, pompous, belittling Brit judge like him.
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