Yeah, these sorts of "arguments" are typical of either those who wish for Europe to have a common culture (like EU federalist extremists) or people who don't ha

Yeah, these sorts of "arguments" are typical of either those who wish for Europe to have a common culture (like EU federalist extremists) or people who don't have a genuine common culture like Americans, but think they do. Both fail to grasp the reality of culture and end up trivializing it to great detriment for everyone (the Soviets tried the same and it all came crashing down as Soviet Man led to the return of the repressed ethnic identities of the Russian Empire). The former trivialize it, thinking they can magically manufacture some kind of common identity (What the heck is "European" identity? Common cultural features or foundations, much less the suppression of diversity, do not suffice to magically produce an ethnic or cultural identity). I suspect EU federalists think they can replicate the kind of rootless Americanism that was produced by identity theft and makes people vulnerable to manipulation (the dissolution of European ethnic neighborhoods was largely the product of social engineering that attempted to assimilate these people into a manufactured, imposed, and ultimately vacuous "white" identity and you can see this because most European immigrants weren't white until much later in American history. I mean, what the heck is "white" identity? It's ultimately meaningless and allows those in power to fill it with any content they like, like "person who drinks Coke, watches Hollywood movies, and buys tons of crap he doesn't need, oh, and accepts abuse from a usurious oligarchy that uses debt and compound interest as an instrument of power and enrichment"). This is part of the reason why Americans are so confused about such things because they have no real culture. Why would you want to inflict something like that on Europe? Besides, ethnic difference is interesting and need not be a source of hatred or conflict. You need some way to simultaneously keep your ethnicity and transcend it. Every attempt to go to the extremes, to exaggerate ethnicity or so suppress it, always lead to disaster. All of this is not to say that TV cannot be used as a powerful tool for social engineering. It can and it is. Television and Hollywood have, in concert with the education system, caused enormous changes in society. It's just harder to accomplish without first demoralizing and robbing someone of his identity first. Solve et coagula.