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Originally Posted by alyster
Yes I do mean integration in EU. EU currently is a confederation. It's slow, not united(energy politics, forein politics etc), not powerful etc. I support the idea of European superstate, in time ofcourse not today. But for that one important thing must be created: European identity and we must cross the language barrier. These are more internationalistic idead...
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It would be wrong to create such an identity because Europe is based on differences. Different languages, different cultures etc.
We had a similar thing several decades ago. The country was called "Yugoslavia" and the artificial identity was called "Yugoslav". The original idea was that all people of the former state embrace this identity, in order to eliminate national barriers. But this was a rotten ideology with no future and there is no doubt that its European version would eventually have the same fate.
It is needless to say that people who accepted this identity were later often despised by their original countrymen.