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aceofspades19 months, 1 week ago

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Ok I agree with the concept of the EU & it is a good thing,. but given the history of Europe, I am very pessimistic of it's success.
Undeniably the US has had a litany of internal "wars" as you call it, but even though it is basically a union of many states (50) there is a commonality of purpose & generally a single language, although many others are spoken , that is not present amongst the countries of Europe. The history of the US is short, the history of Europe is long.

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  gamahuche9 months, 1 week ago
  
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  "there is a commonality of purpose"
  You mean like that between the Republicans and the Democrats?
  As for the single language..
  Almost all educated Europeans are multi-lingual - though its true that not so many of us can deal with Hungarian or Finnish or Gaelic or the Norse and Slavic languages.
  I get by quite happily with 5 of them but there are a couple that I do try to avoid or simply baulk at.
  Ain't nothing wrong with diversity - quite the opposite in my opinion.
  Unfortunately some of our biggest and formerly best breweries have been bought by outsiders, NEVER leading to an improvement in quality but only in a couple of instances to total undrinkability.
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  "The history of the US is short, the history of Europe is long."
  You got that right!!
  Which makes us a more mature continent?
  Or incontinent - metaphorically speaking?
  
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    hyperbola9 months, 1 week ago
    
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    Personally I think European diversity is a strength rather than a weakness. In "hegemonic" societies like the US it is too easy for anti-democratic processes to corrupt the country.
    
    Frankly the differences amongst different regions of Europe (I am thinking of 3-4 dialects of German for example) are about the same as differences between regions in the US.
    
    If Europeans were as determined to prove their superiority as some Americans, they would be cheering Robert Kaplan for his book pointing out that the centrigual forces in the US are now in favor of it splitting up into several "culturally" dstinct regions.
    
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