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Originally Posted by Gonzalvus
Don't you think that such position would result in the dissolution of our respective national identities into one huge, amorphous, identity-lacking, soul-less nation? For instance, we the spaniards still have traditions and customs we'd like to preserve --traditions that would probably disappear in an hypothetical European Federation.
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We Danes have, as well. And all though I'm not only Danish I consider myself a Dane (I was born in Denmark, I have part Danish ancestry, etc).
A problem seems to be that people confuse or synonymize geocultural and geopolitical borders. Like I said, I dont think we should even completely dissolve the geopolitical borders, but I dont think we should enforce them on a separatistic level either; that has never been natural for Europe.
But the geocultural borders between nations should definitely be enforced. I am definitely not saying we should merge Europe into a single mass of what was before a number of different things (with many things in common though). Geocultural borders dont directly involve geoethnic borders, but since they are national borders, the division would be at least part geoethnic. E.g. all French and Spanish people wouldnt replace each other ethnically from one moment to another, but a level of intermigration between European countries has always been occuring and has never threatened individual national groups, and resorting to sub-European isolationism and separatism would be bad for Europe as an entity, and for our relations and unity. A such extreme division would kill the spirit of Europe and result in political conflicts.