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> This has already happened in places like China (or, more organically, India) which until recently were effectively separate civilizations with strong cross-po
by kristianc 6y ago
> This has already happened in places like China (or, more organically, India) which until recently were effectively separate civilizations with strong cross-pollination, much as the regions within the EU have been.
China and India would be an unfortunate direction for the EU to evolve into imo - both increasingly monocultural with increasing levels of repression against minority groups.
- vinay427 6y agoThat's definitely fair. I think I tend to see at least a small move in this direction as something of an inevitability, although the India-style approach still tends to respect regional cultures and languages with repression of minority groups usually not based on regional affinity (which obviously doesn't make it better in any way). France also went along a path more similar to China's with its minority languages and communities, but that's not necessarily a sign of what will happen to pan-Europeanism.
- kristianc 6y agoMaybe - the early signs don't augur well. There's been a pretty long-standing cultural divide between Northern European economies and a supposedly profligate South (particularly Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal). Culturally, you could trace this back to Weber. You could almost say that there are separate cultures in Europe - a culture of Western European economies, a culture of former communist states, and then the Southern European countries. I'm not sure you could ever develop a coherent single European culture without one culture dominating.