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The obvious rebuttal to your first point is that Texas and California share a language. They also share quite a lot of culture. Whether a Texan is more like a C
by colinb 11y ago
The obvious rebuttal to your first point is that Texas and California share a language. They also share quite a lot of culture. Whether a Texan is more like a Californian, than a German is like an Greek, I leave to the reader to decide.
There is one other thing. Identity is hard to impose. Most Americans of my acquaintance hold the US constitution to be a centrally important document. Otherwise they wouldn't argue so much about its exact meaning. There has been an attempt at a European constitution. It seems to have been a dismal failure. All the other arguments about border controls, the euro, farm subsidies and so on pale when compared to this. If you can't win hearts and minds, you can't win.
Though sometimes it appears you can achieve the appearance of winning through bureaucratic confusion.
- gizmodo59 11y agoDiversity need not be a reason for non unification. India for example is so diverse that each state has its own language, food, culture etc..
- pluma 11y agoTo be fair, Pakistan did happen.
- notfoss 11y agoYou'd be surprised to know the similarities between India and Pakistan, culturally. The differences are based on ideologies, but the cultures are quite similar.
- danielam 11y agoAnd yet even there they chose to split off. The subject requires deeper examination.
- fsloth 11y agoMuslims vs. hindus. There were lots of political issues when britain ceded the Raj - but basically one of the driving factors for an independent Pakistan was escalation of political friction between factions representing hindus and muslims.