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COUNTRIES AND CORPORATIONS: THE BLURRED LINES OF NATIONALISM

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COUNTRIES AND CORPORATIONS: THE BLURRED LINES OF NATIONALISM

As we head into 2016, the world has never been more connected. With high speed internet, affordable air travel, and satellite TV, there world is literally a global village, one that is shrinking everyday. The sports world, like business or entertainment, has cottoned on to this new way of thinking and more and more, athletes are representing domestic and national teams in countries they were not born in. So what place does patriotism and national pride have in all this? If we are all united by a love for sport, and ideologies such as nationalism are outdated, is there any point in international competition? CONQA Sport explores. 

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