Q.Character 1: Why don't you cheer for our team? Don't you have any nationalist spirit? Character 2: I am as much a nationalist as anyone else. I cast my vote; I pay my taxes and I respect the laws of our country. I am also proud to belong to this country.
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →The exchange shows that genuine national belonging does not require loud, visible displays like cheering for a team — it can be expressed just as authentically through quieter civic commitment, and the underlying belief in belonging is what actually makes someone part of the national 'team.'
The first speaker assumes that not cheering for 'our team' is evidence of a lack of 'nationalist spirit.' The second speaker rejects this assumption while still affirming a real sense of national belonging — pointing instead to voting, paying taxes, respecting the country's laws, and feeling genuine pride in belonging to it. This matches the chapter's basic point about how a nation is held together: a nation exists because its members believe they belong together, in the same way a sports team exists only because its players think of themselves as one collective group. That underlying belief can take many different outward forms — passionate, visible enthusiasm is one form, but quiet, consistent civic participation (voting, tax-paying, law-abiding, feeling pride) is an equally genuine expression of the same underlying belief in belonging to the national community. The exch …
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