>>508035666>American>YesBeing is not living. I spent 99% of my life here. Nobody wants their culture disappearing in the sea of homogenization.
> Even with all the EU integration we've seen already, this hasn't occurred to the degree that some might expectI will respond to the entire paragraph here - this hasn't fully happened yet sure, but the process is well underway.
Firstly, about 35% of Iceland is currently speaking Polish. Entire communities here in Spain are full of Russians, others of Norwegians, and I mean entire large areas feel like Russia rather than Spain
With time this process, even if it does not accelerate, will move towards its logical conclusion. Elimination of barriers = eventual death of ethnicities. No thanks.
I would rather be a Russian vassal state than that.
This isn't meant as a gotcha, but your disconnect from the reality of Europe as an American is on full display with your views.
It is akin to American Blacks coming to Africa in the 20th century and advocating for Pan-Africanism - importing a European ideology to a continent foreign (and hostile) to it entirely. It ignored tribal conflicts, grievances, basic geography, and the continent's reality.
Same here, just less ridiculous than Pan-Africanism