The Schengen area has existed for about 25 years. The EU for less than 30. There's no common language, but English as the language of businesses is already begi

The Schengen area has existed for about 25 years. The EU for less than 30. There's no common language, but English as the language of businesses is already beginning to dominate. The USA had many rich local cultures, and to some extent still does - there's a lot of regional differences. But it also has ghettos and isolation, and an awful lot of senseless racial tension. Is cultural melding inevitable? Maybe, maybe not. But you can't take a mere generation of EU freedom of movement as an indicator of end-state.