Commentary: Qatar World Cup is a festival of cosmopolitanism – not nationalism

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Everyone expected a clash of civilisations to play out at the World Cup in Qatar, but the civilisations are getting along just fine, says the Financial Times’ Simon Kuper.

All that makes actually being at this World Cup confusing. I’m spending 16 hours a day around Doha and in stadiums, witnessing a different world.

In a typical metro carriage during the first round, you saw male Saudi fans packed together with mixed groups of Iranians and singing Mexicans, watched benignly by shaven-headed Englishmen, everyone filming everyone else on their phones. The main civilisational divide here is by height: Fans from rich countries seem to be on average a head taller than those from the Global South. But the latter come, by definition, from their national elites.

 

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