Pride is a funny old thing isn’t it? We’re so rarely proud of the things we have a right to be proud of. Our accomplishments at work, our academic achievements, the steps we take to keep our relationships happy and healthy and even the way we raise our wonderful kids. We’re expected to bear these accomplishments with a kind of demure modesty. Yet, when it comes to the achievements of our favourite sporting team we’re allowed to roar with pride. Of all the many and various types of pride, pride in where you live is surely amongst the strangest. New Yorkers, for example, are often portrayed as fiercely proud. In fact, one could argue that Donald Trump’s ascendance to the Presidency owed a great deal to the fact that he was able to tap into a flagging sense of national pride in the American populace. See also, the Leave movement in Britain leading up to Brexit.
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