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Originally Posted by Sektor
I can see two,three or even more different ethno-cultural zones in Europe...
first is romano-catholic zone with common bonds in religion(Roman-catholicism),culture(Latin i.e Roman culture) and language(languages like French,Spanish,Italian,originated from old Latin) and even common ethnic structure(most of these nations are of Mediterranean race)...
second is germano-protestant zone with common bonds in religion(most of them are prostestants-Lutherans),ethnic structure(Germanic),and they also share similar culture and languages...
third could be called orthodox-slavic zone with common bonds in religion(Orthodox Christian),culture(Byzantian),and some of them even share common ethnic and linguistic bond(Slavic)...
there are,also,border nations like French,Polish,Finnish etc.
so what do we share then?I think it's same geographical position and common European destiny and some cultural and religious links like Christianity...
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You are right there. I didn't mention Christendom even when it is the only common bond which is real. However, I'm not sure how much of the second group fits into it.
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some of you won't agree with me,by I think Europe is Christian,and that is something,among other things,what's authentically European...
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On the contrary. I do agree with you in that.
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I don't understand this...can you be more specific...
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I don't believe that Europe is a reality, other than what was represented by Christendom with its specific churches in the West and in the East. Apart from that, it could only be defined as an ideal. As such, I deem some of the approaches such as those of certain Pan-Europeanisms derived from nazi ideologies as no less aberrant than the Pan-Europeanism of the European Union.
Both focus in the destruction of the nations of Europe and, the fact is, that without the nations Europe is nothing.
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true...but that's no problem in eastern Europe...
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This is linked to what I've mentioned above about how Europe is defined by some people. It is not an Eastern problem as directly as it is Western, but it is still of concern to Eastern Europe.
The way nazi Germany was planning its design for Europe, based on small, fractioned alleged ethnicities, would have left Europe to the mercy of the only one nation which would have not been broken up into small feudatary-like states, Germany. A master plan or, rather, a master swindle. Germany would easily become that way the uncontested hegemonical power in Western Europe. Eastern Europe would follow a not much better fate.
This is how it is still today viewed by no few nazis (at least those who know what they are speaking about when they call themselves nazi or NS), and it is also inherited by the Identitarian movement which is, after all, recycled from German National Socialism.