If I remember correctly, most Europeans identifiy first with their city, then with their country and third with the EU…
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nl_the_shadow@lemmy.world 10 months agoExactly, different states still have their country as common ground. Most Europeans identify with their nationality first, and as a European second.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 10 months ago
halferect@lemmy.world 10 months ago
When asked where I’m from I say my state, I don’t say I’m American.
hibsen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah I don’t know any Americans that don’t do this. Like I get it, I don’t like us either, but going from Colorado to Texas is more jarring to me than going from France to Germany.
merc@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yes, going from “foreign place where I don’t speak the language” to “foreign place where I don’t speak the language” isn’t jarring because it’s all very foreign. But, the differences between France and Germany are objectively huge compared to the differences between Colorado and Texas.
hibsen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
…I do speak the language in one of the two, but thanks for the shitty assumption. That it’s more jarring for me between two states is my own subjective opinion. It’s almost like there’s more to culture than language.
rambaroo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is ridiculous. This is why Europeans think we’re so stupid and insular, and they’re right.