Re: CHAT: national identity

At 23:26 +0200 15.5.1999, Daniel Andreasson wrote:
>> Tom Wier wrote:
>> >This is somewhat of an aside, but I've noticed that several of y'all seem
>> >to refer to yourselves as members of the European Union, rather than
>> >constituent members of your own countries.  Does this reflect a general
>> >attitude at present in Europe that people there are more and more first
>> >Europeans, and then only later French or Dutch or Germans, much as most
>> >Americans, as opposed to 100 or 150 years ago, now consider themselves
>> >first Americans, and then only later members of a particular state?
>
>No. Definitely not in Sweden, at least.
ABSOLUTELY NOT.  IMNSHO the Union is undemocratic, and the way "European
Union adaptation" was used as an excuse for all manner of unpopular
measures that were in the end not relevant to Sweden's entry into the union
made me vote against the entry.  Now that we are there the best we can do,
however, is to do our best to make it more democratic.

ObConlang: Does anyone's lang have a simple word for "intentionally
self-deceptive false rationalization"? Our politicians would need such a
word! >;)

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