The political news is hardly motivating. From one side, the campaign soundbites, and the other, the resurgence a balance WSPU was believed abolished, there is little reason for optimism for the future. And these are not the results, but worse still, the game rolled out by France Football Team who will put a balm to the heart of the French.
But when I exchanged with other users on this disenchantment among the national and public the conversation digress on the conflictual relations between the people and the football itself.
Also residing in England, and from a culture heavily focused on the football, I could not affirm with certainty that the France has no real football culture . This has not failed to provoke the ire of some who were offended that we meddle "culture" and football .
However, these reactions have not failed to provoke in me an interest as symptomatic, in my view, sources of this disenchantment: condescension.
Like the Internet, some pretend not to know the different meanings that can give the term "culture" in French, so I would remember that if this word can indeed describe the art of growing potatoes and minds, it is also a synonym for "civilization", of "society", etc. . In short, a word denoting an essential characteristic of a group, society, civilization, nation . We are talking
indifferently winning culture, culture of lying , corporate culture, culture of cheating , culture of modesty, and thus sports culture.
Now if I mentioned the "football culture" in France failing, it is basically to emphasize that this sport does not meet a breadth and such a success that can be said that this is an essential element in defining the French nation.
For Whiners, we need to highlight the litany on the intellect, cultivate a passion for football, contrary to what some imply, is not exclusive intellectual activity although it is, I agree, the image that persists in the collective unconscious and French precisely because France and football is "I love you, moi non plus" .
When it comes to exalt the patriotic, waving the flag of blue-white-red is "I love you." In other cases, "I do not either." What makes football clubs, football or spirit is not at the height of the fervor that we can meet our closest European neighbors: England, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
also recall in passing that culture, is the art of raising the body and mind . Mens sana in corpore sano .
However, it appears that trend will be included in French society for many years and we can also find in our school model: recovery of materials called "noble" in contempt of others such as sport (or should we say, physical education and sports). So that it entered into the collective unconscious since our childhood that students who thrive in these materials are not worth those who excel in math or French, contributing to a standardization execrable and exclusion of those who n fell outside the mold of the college unique. Now recall that despite the growing sense that these intellectuals bienpensants hear him give, not only scholarship in the fields of art and / or scientific . We can pretend to ignore the importance of football in some societies such as in some countries in South America or southern Europe, it will not change that there is a real football culture alongside other equally vital aspects of their nation.
I would take the example of the Portugal that I know well: football is an essential element of society, next to religion, the country's history, its relationship with its former colonies, the "saudade "Fado, food, popular indiscipline, its literature, its rurality, its superstition, its colonial past, its folklore, dances, variety, its relation to agriculture , the sweetness of life, etc. ...
Again, I just think that behind this unwillingness to recognize football as an essential element of French society, lies the reason that football could never be truly popular in France: condescension collective lend a demeaning to the passion for football based on assumptions bonds arrogance and contempt.
Yet France is not only that the Enlightenment is also Koppa, Platini and Zidane. And do not dishonor them to admit that love others ...
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