I dont wish everyone will speak english, i just recognise a unassailable fact, Different languages are the first of many indicators of cultural difference, and scots gealic is dying out because its impractical, not because i have a vandetta against it.
(if you think otherwise watch gealic language TV on british channel 2, theres so many english words in it its funny).
If i remember correctly canada doesnt get along, quebec folk want independence, at least a large preportion of them.
China suceeds because the ethnic minorities are supressed, its a bit easier to "get along" when one dominant group and their language holds a gun to the heads of the minorities if they so much as ask for independence.
Cute, accusing me of cultural opression, i guess you must assume i go around blowing up mosques and hindu temples and beating up anyone not speaking english.....seriously, whos the real totalitarian here?.
Im standing up for my believe in the sovreignty of distinct seperate nations, your the one looking down on anyone who doesnt agree with your fantasy of a united europe, you appear to be the one that needs to demonise me and people who feel like me when we dont want your world view imposed on us.
Scots isnt a language its a dialect, evident by the fact most of it is actually understandable to me, an english speaker.
Too bad you think like that. I pity people government by people thinking like you. This is the basis of totalitarian repression. That is everything the EU is fighting agaisnt ! Maybe that's why so many Brits dislike the EU. They just wish that everybody would speak English, as they don't have the brains to learn other languages, nor the tolerance and respect for people who think differently !
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No, Looking down upon the independent minded in favour of a larger regime against their will is the basis of totalitarian opression, its the same principle behind ethnic minorities being opressed by a larger neighbour, just as you and other pro-EU's look down and spit upon those of us who are quite happy to remain independent and loyal to our country.
I dont wish everybody speaks english, i never said that so, thats your flawed assumption im afraid.
I am learning Japanese, again your position is your own flawed creation, most likely feuled by the pumpmed ego and sense of superiority and rightousness caused by the beleif your EU is the awsner to all ills.
As for tolerance, well, funny, one of us is arguing for the freedom and sovreignty of other peoples cultures and way of life as much as my own, one of us is arguing that a democratically un-accountable and barely functioning beaurocracy with too much paper-work and not enough of what really matters, has no right or ability to decide the fate and future of a people on the other side on the continent, with a different language, culture, taboos and principles and ideals.
One of us is saying a united states of europe is a fantasy, and that human nature will either turn it into a totalitarian opressor you preach to oppose, or crumble under its own inability to function competently and provide a semblence of a thriving and universally acceptable regime.
The one size fits all federal approach works for the united states because all the states are in no sense considored culturally and nationally seperate from the centre, An american from one side of the country is (apart from maybe skin) probably little different from one from the other, in europe, a different country is a different country.
You mistake a shared religion and continent as basis for forcing europe into one nation. It isnt.
And the only way it will ever acheive this is by force, and we all know how forceful conquest of europe ends up.
Human nature dictates Loyalty to nation and culture is fact, human nature dictates a fantasy where all of europe suddenly falls in line, all cultural difference vanishes, all language barriers are broken down, where all europeans despite their country of origin suddenly forget their nationality for the fake artificially imposed idea of european nationality, where everyone suddenly drops their live and ambitions and desires, to fall in line for the greater good of this new and alien idea of USE, is fiction.
Your right though that British folk are different from the rest of europe, a fine example of why a USE wont work, were part of the EU and already you, a self proclaimed european citizen appear to hold a contept for what essentially will be a fellow countryman in a perfect USE future.
So what would happen if the USE was founded? would your non-existant forces invade france for resisting?, would britain become a pariah, maybe you would like to blitz london again?....Maybe you would like world war 3 where the USE forces (if they actually manage to exist and establish themselves) wage war against the unbeliever remainder of europe who dont join originally?.
Federalism is just as dangerous and contemptuous as any dictatorial empire, at least when it has designs over an entire continent of diverse independent and sovreign cultures.