> Speaking as an American, my chief problem with the EU is that it's too big with wanton disregard for the histories of its constituent member nations. > > Cult

> Speaking as an American, my chief problem with the EU is that it's too big with wanton disregard for the histories of its constituent member nations. > > Cultural and national pride are things that are very real and not something to be tossed aside, they are the identities of those peoples and deserve to be respected. > > The EU damages such things by way of instituting a single currency, removing the concept of borders, removing a nation's sovereign right to fiscal and economical policies, and more You're missing the point of the EU. The EU was literally created to do this and to tone down national pride. The purpose of the EU was to prevent wars in Europe. Europe was a hotbed for wars for hundreds of years. WW1 was not that special! We had countless wars in Europe, even wars that would be considered world wars in retrospect like Napoleon's romp across the continent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe The founding idea of the EU is to intertwine countries, remove barriers between them, so that Europeans stop trying to kill one another because of cultural and national pride. That's why there are no borders, why there's a single market (the very origins of the single market are in tying together steel production between EU members so that they couldn't easily detach from one another and create their own war machines again), why there are common rules, etc.