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That's pretty much Europe. Drastically different mindsets from London to Istanbul and Oslo to Barcelona. Sometimes I'm surprised how EU(though a smaller subset
by mrtksn 3y ago
That's pretty much Europe. Drastically different mindsets from London to Istanbul and Oslo to Barcelona. Sometimes I'm surprised how EU(though a smaller subset of Europe) even manages to agree on anything.
- sexy_seedbox 3y agoSounds like the United States of America.
- mrtksn 3y agoIs it?
- arlort 3y agoA mix and match of the US immediately after the constitution was signed and the US during the Articles of Confederation is the best way to think about it
- mrtksn 3y agoThat was long ago. Europe's latest great war was like 80 years ago, the standardisation and free movement through EU and Schengen are even fresher. The language barriers aren't even lifted yet, though the young seems to be quite good with adopting English as lingua franca. Yet, most of the Europeans can't talk to each other because the older generations in general will speak the language of their neighbour only and that will be around the border regions. Some smaller countries are better though. "European" as an identity is a rough diamond still.
- oezi 3y agoConsensus is their core strength.
- mantas 3y agoWhich is being under attack by some people who want to build a hegemonic monolith dominated by few.
- prototo3 3y agoMaybe that’s because in both comparisons you’ve mentioned cities not in the EU
- mrtksn 3y agoI mentioned them due to their geographic positional extremes. Replace Istanbul with Athens, London with Amsterdam and Oslo with Stockholm ıf you want to include EU only cities and its the same thing, just slightly narrower geography. EU is a subset of Europe but its very wide subset, which includes most of the extremes.