public opinion | nccr – on the move https://nccr-blog.flake.work Sun, 09 Mar 2025 17:40:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Magic Thinking: Past and Current https://nccr-blog.flake.work/magic-thinking-past-and-current/ https://nccr-blog.flake.work/magic-thinking-past-and-current/#respond Wed, 11 Dec 2024 08:30:13 +0000 https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/?p=9751 “La Grande Magia,” a Neapolitan postwar play, blurs the line between illusion and reality, highlighting how we often prefer to entertain comforting illusions instead of facing the hard truths. This theme feels vividly relevant today. As we observe with astonishment the current US-American political events, the parallels seem too close

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]]> https://nccr-blog.flake.work/magic-thinking-past-and-current/feed/ 0 How One Sporting Gesture Helped Curb Ethnic Discrimination https://nccr-blog.flake.work/how-one-sporting-gesture-helped-curb-ethnic-discrimination/ https://nccr-blog.flake.work/how-one-sporting-gesture-helped-curb-ethnic-discrimination/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2022 12:49:31 +0000 https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/?p=8334 During the 90th minute of the 2018 World Cup, when there was a draw between Switzerland and Serbia, Xherdan Shaqiri scored for Switzerland. Emotions ran high as Shaqiri celebrated his goal with a gesture indicating a double eagle, similar to that gestured by another player Granit Xhaka earlier in the

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