11-02-2005, 10:47 PM
Occhidiangela,Nov 2 2005, 11:33 AM Wrote:OK, macro economic forces, Globalism's influence, rather than something wholly in the control of any given government, or the EU "authorities."
Your reply illustrates rather than answers my puzzlement on why some Europeans appear to happy to bash "European culture," (a rather loose term, don't you think?) while decrying a slight at, for example, Muslim culture as you have just done.
Seems inconsistent. What common cultural assumption is at work here?
Occhi
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PS: Sorry eppie, I missed a point.
I don't think he's anti-European. He is pro Europe and anti-Eurabia, as he calls it. What he represents is an anti EU growth sentiment that bases its belief in the distrust of EU tyranny by bureaucrats, which is NOT the same thing as being anti-European. He sees the retention of difference as "vive la difference" and I think he advocates the various states retain their sovereignty and various unique characters.
Plenty of Dutch folks were apparently anti- the new EU Constitution, but that did not make them anti-European.
Does that make sense to you?
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete