> Out of curiosity: if Americans are prototypically self-motivated and desire to make money, push the frontier, explore, and invent, and that Europeans don't (a

> Out of curiosity: if Americans are prototypically self-motivated and desire to make money, push the frontier, explore, and invent, and that Europeans don't (as a culture) dream of those things, do Europeans have widely shared dreams? What are they? There aren't any. "Europeans as a culture" simply does not exist. It's just a bunch of very different countries with very different cultures that decided to make a union. The only difference I've found that holds between the USA and the whole of Europe[0] is that our price-labels all list the price after taxes. I found that quite weird. But they all get to have some unique quirks, so otherwise your culture is very recognizable in the sense that it might as well be another EU country :P [0] someone is bound to correct me on this, I haven't been to all of the EU countries.