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Originally Posted by slapass
If you look at our history this what we did in the US. The states were not homogenous. Europe seems on the right track with the EU. Bigger is better and hopefully someday we will have one world.
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It's very hard to find a parallel.
If I remember well, there were mainly three branches of interest in Northern America:
The British empire
France
The kingdom of Spain
And the extremely crucial steps in order to create a new, united country, were.
Step by step, to eliminate ALL these particular national interests.
That's already a premise you can build on, and that's a premise that's impossible to realize in the EU.
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Originally Posted by slapass
There was a good point made earlier that since we export our culture to the world that obviously other coutries know more about us then we know about them.
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That is correct, unfortunately the culture, as displayed, is not always too compatible with the mindset of its audience and might even stimulate aversion (talking about Jerry Springer for example
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