资源描述：
《Ireland’s future depends on diaspora’s ‘soft power’英文资料》由会员上传分享，免费在线阅读，更多相关内容在学术论文-天天文库。
1、Ireland’sfuturedependsondiaspora’s‘softpower’October3,2007PostedinArticles
2、CelticTiger
3、Ireland
4、IrishIndependent
5、People
6、PoliticsbyDavidMcWilliams23CommentsYouwereacrapplayerandyouareacrapmanager.TheonlyreasonIhaveanydealingswithyouisthatsomehowyouarethemanagerofmycountryandyou’renoteven
7、Irish,youEnglishc**t.”Allegedly,withthatpartingshot,RoyKeanewalkedoutoftheIrishteamatSaipanin2002.ButRoyhadusedthewordthatcanneverbespokeninpolitesociety.HeusedtheE-word.HecalledMickMcCarthy‘English’andinsodoing,openedupthedebateaboutwhatconstitutesanIrishman.IsitenoughtohaveIrishblood
8、ordoyouhavetobebornhere?WhataboutthosewholiveinanIrishareaofQueensorLondon,haveIrishparentsandrelations,feelthemselvestobeIrish,sing‘TheFieldsofAthenry’yetsoundScouse,Bostonian,Cape-Townian,CockneyorCanadian?IstheDiasporatrulyIrish?Havewe,theIrishbornhere,forgottenthatthesepeoplearethe
9、Irishfootprintaroundtheworld?ThebestIrishfootballteams,themostsuccessfulones,werethoseintheCharltonerawhorepresentedawidest-possibledefinitionofIrishness.Atthetimemanysoccercommentatorslamentedthefactthatthereweresomanyofwhatwastermedderogatorily‘PlasticPaddies’ontheteam.Butthesemenwer
10、ethedemographicechoofthe500,000IrishemigrantswholeftforBritainfrom1949-1961.TheKevinSheedys,RayHoughtonsandJohnSheridanswerethesonsofmenandwomenwhoweredrivenoutbydeValera’seconomicnationalism.Theypulledonthejerseyand,asfaraswewereconcerned,theywereasIrishasanyoneelseThesonsofexilesadde
11、denormouslytothepotentialoftheteam,givingitoptionsandtalentsthatwewouldnototherwisehavehad.Thiswasapost-nationalist,nationalsoccerteam,theveryessenceofglobalisation.NowthinkaboutthepotentialeconomicimpactoftheIrishDiaspora.Thisisonethingwehavethatsofewothercountrieshave.Thisisourbigges
12、tandmostuniqueresourceandyetwedon’tappreciateitsvalue.Thekeytoeconomicsuccessinthefutureistoinvestinpeopleandbrainpowerratherthanproperty.Intheyearsaheadthecountrieswiththebestnetworks,contactsandbrainswillwin.Thisistermed“softpower”andthekeytosoftpowerispeople.IntheDiasporawenotonly
