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My only concern is that I don't think people in Europe feel very "European". There is no identity in being European like there is in being German, Swedish, or w
by geon 15y ago
My only concern is that I don't think people in Europe feel very "European". There is no identity in being European like there is in being German, Swedish, or whatever. Bundling us together because we live on the same continent seems a bit artificial to me.
- skrebbel 15y agoThis, again, differs very much from area to area and from subculture to subculture. I, myself, feel very European. In the hacker culture context, even more so, given that it's my way of saying "Not USA". We have multiple languages (impacts app design and priorities), a very different set of employment laws (impacts hiring approaches), a more laid back working culture (impacts to what extent VCs can get you to work 70 hours a week), and so on. All of these things are relatively common among most, if not all, European countries, yet very different in the US. Canada is, as usual, somewhere halfway.
- geon 15y ago> a more laid back working culture (impacts to what extent VCs can get you to work 70 hours a week) Good point. I havent thought of it that way. Not identifying myself as european might be because I'm Swedish, and thus a bit off-center geographically. I feel a stronger international identity in the Nordic countries, sharing a great deal of culture and political history. We don't even have any border controll to speak of between Norway and Sweden.
- justincormack 15y agoI feel very European. There is a huge amount of history and culture that binds us together. And I think a European hacker culture too to some extent. Writing this in a French bar in Brussels, although I am English.