Europe is a place with people in it, who have a particular culture. (Or set of cultures, which in global terms are rather similar to each other.) When you com

Europe is a place with people in it, who have a particular culture. (Or set of cultures, which in global terms are rather similar to each other.) When you come right down to it, we don't care about Europe because of the scenery. We don't even care about it because it's economically powerful. We care about it because that culture has given more freedom to more people than any other.