Tribalism dangers

There any many different causes of tribalism shown through out the book, some of the causes of tribalism lead to some dangerous matters sometimes. This is called football hooliganism and it is seen mostly in European countries, this is shown in the book- How Soccer Explains the world written by the great author- Franklin Foer. Franklin Foer is an American journalist and the editor of The New Republic. An American citizen for the American citizens writes this book. The book tells about a passion for football that the Americans do not get. I am not to sure if Franklin Foer actually believes in his thesis he proposes in the book- that European football can be used somehow to explain the world and that locals are noticing the globalizations and in return are reacting to it with nationalism.

Franklin Foer’s first chapter “How Soccer Explains The Gangster’s paradise” tells about the relationship between the well known football club the Red Star Belgrade and the Serbian paramilitaries who committed many crimes against the Croats and the Bosnians in reason of the collapse of former Yugoslavia. This seems very dangerous and unfair that the Serbian paramilitaries committed many crimes against the Croats and the Bosnians. The very well known and well respected Zeljko Raznatovic Serb Volunteer Force started as an ensemble of 20 Red Star hooligans, after a while the ensemble became 10,000 well-trained fighters and these men were responsible for many deaths. To me, this seems to dangerous of measures and the Red Star hooligans should not have been responsible for any deaths at all, they should not be so corruptive towards their passion that it drives them so far as deaths. This to me is the most dangerous group of tribalism. In the s...

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...will decide how much tribalism they wish to get involved in, even if it is simply wearing the jersey; or getting involved in heavy duty teasing with the rival fans of their favorite football team; or even if they simply decorated their own home with every piece of team collectables available for purchase. Whatever an individual does or decides to continue to do I remain convinced that it is actually the tribalism that is more important that the football and if that tribalism dies, than professional football becomes starved of its founding roots and dies. And that my friends, is the scariest thought of it all. Even though I am a strong supporter of tribalism in football, I do feel as that the extreme football hooliganism violence that takes place in the book “How Soccer Explains The World” is unnecessary and the violence does not need to happen along with tribalism.