Re: CHAT: national identity

Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 15/05/99 16:28:25  , Tom Wier a =E9crit :

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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?
  >>

Staying in Asia and the US made me realise that I'm European. Actually, I=20
feel Latin European. Except when it comes to work. Latin and Irish people ar=
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very different from Northern Europeans.

Mathias