12.03.2009, 08:04
why they try to highlight a differance
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Of course there is a difference between Austria and Germany.
In Europe, any reason (valid or silly) to celebrate a difference between yourselves and a neighbor, no matter how distant or how near, no matter if a region within your own country or a neighboring country, it will always be a factor in European thinking and how people experience themselves and relate to others.
Even if by some odd happenstance, Europe would fragment into a series of umpteen independent city-states, you can be assured that within each of those small city-states, there would be neighborhoods thinking themselves underprivileged in regards to other neighborhoods or else elevated in status.
That is the history of Europe - like it or not.
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Of course there is a difference between Austria and Germany.
In Europe, any reason (valid or silly) to celebrate a difference between yourselves and a neighbor, no matter how distant or how near, no matter if a region within your own country or a neighboring country, it will always be a factor in European thinking and how people experience themselves and relate to others.
Even if by some odd happenstance, Europe would fragment into a series of umpteen independent city-states, you can be assured that within each of those small city-states, there would be neighborhoods thinking themselves underprivileged in regards to other neighborhoods or else elevated in status.
That is the history of Europe - like it or not.