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Originally Posted by alyster
I told you I dont fit in here.
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You are welcome here as far as I'm concerned.
Here on Stirpes we don't oppress people with different opinion, but instead we debate and respect the other side.
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Macro identity doesn't erase the smaller ones. Take Estonia for example. In southern Estonia they have bit different culture and even the traditional language differs. We once sent a group Neiukõsõ to Eurovision who sung in Võro language, which is spoken in Southern Estonia. I didn't understand a word of the song, I had to look up a translation. So truely good culture and language which is loved by it's people will not be lost in internationalisation. Are indians less indians today in the US? Or are irish less irish? They are americans, yet they are irish, indians, englishmen, russians etc.
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Macro identity does not threaten to obliterate smaller ones in short term, but in longer period of time. So it doesn't threaten our identity but the one that our children will one day call their own.
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However today we can not survive like 5000 years ago, when every tribe was living in their own village. Even European strongest countries can not stand up to the Russian influence with out being a toy of the US or vice-versa. I'm not even talking about the rest(who are majority). EU must be one and strong. Otherwhise there will be no Europe.
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Agreed. We can coexist and cooperate in the united Europe under a common goal. But this has to be done with the respect to other nation's cultural and lingual uniqueness.