> Dunno why everybody is using this thread to compare the EU to the US, as if I cared about how it is in the US. Because the comment that you replied to was co

> Dunno why everybody is using this thread to compare the EU to the US, as if I cared about how it is in the US. Because the comment that you replied to was comparing the EU to the US: "And everyone benefits from this kind of collective solidarity - our societies are far less combative (both in the literal and the proverbial sense) than the US are."