News, United Europe celebrates ethnic diversity. (to buy, to live, train)

[John1960]

One of the things that charms me about traveling through Europe is its ethnic variety. Hop on a train and two hours later you step into a different culture, different language and different heritage.

United Europe celebrates ethnic diversity - CNN.com

[LivingInExiles]

The words "United Europe" makes me cringe.

[Shizzles]

It's nice that Europe finally realizes the treasure of their own cultures. It's tiring having everything boil down to colonialism and "white guilt".

It would be nice if Africa could establish such a pan-ethnic outlook which would solve much of the fighting over there.

[LivingInExiles]

^ There ARE Africans who do hole that mindset, a simple search of "Pan-Africanism" on Google would reveal that to you, but the amount of tribalism coupled with economic competition, has some parts of Africa (as in not all, nowhere near that) stuck in an almost never ending state of civil war.

[Huckleberry3911948]

unless under the new diversity program you get mugged near paris. which is why the big push to buy a deux cheval (small car) and avoid the metro.

[Geography Freak]

All this diversity claptrap is just a plot to undermine national sovereignty with the complicity of the secesionist nationalisms, but maybe I'm just paranoid.

[jtur88]

Right from the start, I have feared that a United Europe will suffer a similar fate as that of the United Yugoslavia.

[varduren]

Originally Posted by Shizzles

It's nice that Europe finally realizes the treasure of their own cultures. It's tiring having everything boil down to colonialism and "white guilt".

It would be nice if Africa could establish such a pan-ethnic outlook which would solve much of the fighting over there.

Have you lived in Africa that you can make that statement or are you relying on the objective press? I know it is convenient to pontificate and forget about Europe's dark ages and other acts all done in the name of god, to touch the tip of the iceberg. furthermore, i have only lived in the UK for 2.5 years but I have to disagree about europe realising the treasure of its own culture. I have never seen such social discrimination against other eu countries such as poland to name but a few. In saying this, Poland is a new EU country, but even with older eu members such as France, Ireland and Portugal I have seen some pretty shameless xenophobia. And although I resonate with your point of it being tiresome with having everything boil down to colonialism and white guilt, i think if you contemporarise european behaviour in colonial times, how different were they to the terrorists of the modern day barring forcing a religious and cultural conversion on the cultures they conquered.

[varduren]

Originally Posted by Geography Freak

All this diversity claptrap is just a plot to undermine national sovereignty with the complicity of the secesionist nationalisms, but maybe I'm just paranoid.

do you not think that over time there could be some social cohesion despite nationalist differences? in modern day ex-colonies, descendants of colonists, descendants of original natives, mixed races and new immigrants seem to live together in relative harmony, or have I misinterpreted your comment?

[Sweden]

I don't think whoever wrote the article really understands life in most European countries... Or that Europe isn't a country but a continent.

"United Europe" - impossible. I've said it before and I'll say it again: there's a reason the 2 world wars started between different European countries...
I think it's naïve of the EU and all "we must unite"-people to think that we can put together 49 countries with appr. 2 or more cultures/ethnicities in every one into one "united Europe".

And I have yet to meet a single person outside of City-Data from a European country that calls him-/herself "European".