I couldn't agree more. There are lots of Americans who thinks of Europe in the same way as the US. Just because most of western Europe is in the EU and share a

I couldn't agree more. There are lots of Americans who thinks of Europe in the same way as the US. Just because most of western Europe is in the EU and share a continent, doesn't mean that you can say something about one country just because you have visited another. And we're talking about Europe here. I can only imagine the kinds of misconceptions we (both Europeans and Americans) have about the Middle East