CHAT: national identity
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 14, 1999, 23:03 |
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Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> In the Netherlands (and as far as I know in the rest of the European
> Union),
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?
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