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By Anonymous On 13th July 2023, in the Faroese capital of Tórshavn, a UEFA Champions League match between HB Tórshavn and Derry City became a brief sensationalised political spectacle. As hosts, HB had accidentally flown the Ulster Banner instead of the Irish tricolour. Highlighting a status of affairs unaware by many in the football sphere. […]

By Qishen Peng China has historically been a long-standing agricultural patriarchal society, where the strong concept of bloodline ethics has led the Chinese to place great importance on their roots. Ancestor worship has become a key symbol of identity recognition, and there are two main perspectives on this. The first perspective stems from Confucian teachings […]

By Benjamin Ruz Vega Basque national identity was subjected to an important struggle for survival during the 20th Century. The dictatorships of Primo de Rivera and Francisco Franco diminished the political autonomy of the Basque country and oppressed them constantly through laws and edicts that targeted their political individuality and desire for independence (Macko, 2011, […]

By Julien McCallin ‘We should not be defined by the smallness of our islands but in the greatness of our oceans. We are the sea; we are the ocean. Pasifika is us.’ (5) Professor ‘Epeli Hau’ofa In 2022, a new team joined the Super Rugby Pacific competition, the Oceanic rugby league: Moana Pasifika. The team […]

By Jing Kai Lee and Ashley Tan Figure 1: A side-by-side comparison of posters from the Speak Good English Movement and the satirical Speak Good Singlish Movement. (Source: Speak Good English Movement & thekopi.co) Singlish, a colloquial language widely spoken in Singapore, has become a key component of the Singaporean identity for a significant number of Singaporeans today. As a […]

By Vicky Suen Nowhere reveals the crux of identity more profoundly than the fields of the Olympic Games. A comical episode occurred when the Hong Kong fencer, Edgar Cheung Ka-long scored a decisive point in the men’s foil individual gold medal match at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, marking Hong Kong’s victory over Italy’s Filippo […]

By Lorraine Lambert Delalbre Amid the shimmering backdrop of the Seine and Paris’s iconic landmarks, the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony was more than just a display of sporting excellence—it was a carefully staged expression of French national identity. Beneath the celebration of France’s cultural legacy and revolutionary values, however, the ceremony unveiled tensions between […]

By Baptise De Vries Zinedine Zidane was undoubtedly the most popular man in France in July 1998. The French born player of Algerian descent or “Zizou” might still be the most worshiped man in the Hexagon to this day. What he and the French football team achieved was seen both as a sporting and socio-political […]

By Alexander Sutherland Open a piece of popular media on the Roman Empire, and one will find that most of this media will portray the Romans speaking English with a ‘British’ accent’. For instance, in HBO’s Rome, the Patrician Romans speak in Received Pronunciation, while Roman soldiers and ‘Plebian’ characters speak in more ‘lower’ class […]