I jump on the bandwagon of teams when it's convenient (the phillies last summer, the chicago bears in superbowl 2007, etc.) And it just happened to be very convenient that I lived in Germany for 3 years, and then the German soccer team was doing very well in the world cup this year. I do like watching soccer; I wasn't just faking it. But I do get a lot more excited about a game when I can pretend to have a legitimate attachment to a team.
So, go Deutschland, go.
Even better, my friends who I worked with while in Germany came to visit the weekend that Germany played in the quarter-final game. Hooray! What could be cooler than getting dressed in our German jerseys and colors and cheering wildly for our second homeland amidst a rowdy crowd of Argentinians? It was a blast, really. It's too bad that they were tragically defeated by Spain in the semi-final, leaving me helpless and apathetic as to the outcome of the final game. I walked by a table of exuberant Spaniards after it was over and I they were yelling so loudly I couldn't help but shout out a hearty "viva Espana!" but really, it didn't matter.
All that to say, I might be guilty of falling into this #133 of many things that white people like, though not for all the reasons they say. But we got to walk around Philadelphia all day in our German colors and feel really cool. And that was worth it all.
-rachel h.
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