Sensuikan San said:
Nope, guys - (and don't get so irritated ... I was only pulling your legs a little anyway ...) however ... I don't have a problem with the EU. It's just that from my observation and conversation .... many people in Europe do!
I was merely smiling at the fact that people of all countries in The European Union are still (inevitably) retaining the usual and historical differences, prejudices, likes, and dislikes that they always have had. I think that this will be the case for many generations to come. For example:
Fear not - there's nothing really threatening in this - it's normal ! (I have met Southerners from the US who still won't allow a blue suited guy into their homes !) It simply amuses me to see the slight irony of citizens of the New United Europe expressing the same feelings as in the "Old, Divided Europe"
But there is a more serious side to this. The attitude expressed in the quote above is a warning, I suggest, that all is not yet totally well in the EU. Old feelings die hard, and understandably so; until they are relegated to a lower shelf, or thrown away completely - I doubt that the EU will ever become the fully fledged "Nation" that it seeks to be.
I do most sincerely hope that it does. (I am a citizen of the EU - I am British and I loathe cricket with a passion - one of the reasons why I left the UK many years ago !)
Finally - with regard to the "Euro" names .... I still think they are a total laugh, ridiculous and totally without imagination .....
So, sue me !
Regards,
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Hm well you make a good point, but as always there are two sides to an issue. If you read carefully my post I'm just stating how things are, the fans were annoying very, and greece didn't reciprocate the points bak to the countries who give it to them like turkey and albania.
Nonetheless, this doesn't mean that I don't get along with greeks, i have had a couple of very good greek friends, never had any trouble, if you actually see the people of the balkan socialize together outside of it they are very similar and get along pretty good, there are only stupid old stereotypes that keep on bustin down a bit relations. But this is something that's still present and well is a good laugh at times, we use it from time to time to get our point across and what not, like Britons makin fun of french or vice versa, such anectodes won't dissapear, yet with the EU encompassing the regions together, things will get better, i mean look i'm not saying that europe will be united in 10 years or even 50 like right away, but we are on the right path, and I do like the cultural differences in Europe, I like the flavor of ethinic jokes and the little tensions, is what gives Europe the characterstics that it has, what makes it versatile, flamboyant, exiting, exotic, neurotic, erotic, ufff, so many adjectives, it's just great, life is made of little things like this, when you begin to enjoy the differences like that from culture and customs of different countries and you can savor them and make fun and what not with others it gives you such a grasp on how good it is to have the chance to experience these things.
The EU won't be a union that will try to create a homogenous culture, the EU will create a standardized economy, political guideline, and European beuracracy that will run things in local prospectives yet still maintaing the European goal. I've had the chance to travel a bit in Europe, learn different cultures, meet different people and I see great many similarites and tasteful differences, differences that make us special and unique, it would be by no way fun if Frenchmen started to be like Englishmen and vice versa........ and that doesn't mean that they can't enjoy the good things about each other.
I truly loathe Euro skeptics like the UKIP because they are people of an prior mentality and of an absurd old obsolete world understanding, sorry for any of you out there, but I feel that people should always try to look at the future and try to improve things, not try to maintain a status quo and be afraid of trying something daring that can have great benefits or put weird stupid small natitonal interests in front of something greater and better, i mean y are so mean european leaders in favor the EU, people with the skill, capability, knowledge, intellectual prowness, foresight, good judgment and what not in favor of this Union? Because the rational mind has realized that together us, Europeans, who share history, blood, customs and culture together well, we belong together, not under one homogenous society, but under one governing system that benefits cooperation and allows us to retain our distinctive identies and allows us to grow further
uffffff that was a lot, :blush: