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To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (172230)	6/12/2002 2:02:47 PM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 436258

I like this bit (from the link) <snip> But things would be worse than that. For Europe is now multi-ethnic and multi-cultural. Such features have not been a problem-free even for the United States. But the United States has, at least in terms of its national myth, been a melting-pot in which races, languages, ethnic origins are fused in the pure flame of patriotism, a patriotism which is defined by allegiance to the constitution, to political institutions and political traditions. The American nation, that is, is a politically-defined nation. In Europe, it beggars belief to imagine that a politically-defined nation could be forged (although one should note, with horror, the recent press reports that five years ago the EU Commission wrote a secret paper arguing that political union would not come about without the perception of an external threat and that a terrorist outrage could contribute to producing such a perception)...<endsnip> Hey, over here, we don't even get along with the guys in the next town.... never mind any of the lunatics over the channel -g-