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raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 13 hours agoit was a union of cultures on the level of ordinary citizens, when Schengen opened internal borders and we were no longer required to ask for work permits to move between countries. The leaders have always been corrupt pieces of human garbage, as I have to admit in hindsight.
myrmidex@belgae.social 12 hours ago
Schengen is about free movement of goods and workers. You might infer cultures from there, but as soon as that culture is Syrian or Afghan, there is pushback, so I’m not sure where you are seeing a union of cultures here…
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Did I say I was proud of it? Pride is for fuckheads. I was happy to live in a European community for a while, and now I am ashamed of this “fortress Europe” full of police states and xenophobic populists. Obviously, cultures that were not present in the union in those days were not part of the union. Nowadays, they are, but the union has been fucked up.
myrmidex@belgae.social 10 hours ago
I hadn’t meant to accuse you of pride, it was a poorly chosen term to indicate whether ‘union of a limited subset of cultures’ is a positive thing (e.g. something to be proud of). I had no idea it would cause offense.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
A mix of any subset of cultures is a net positive compared to isolation from “others”. It’s impossible to jump straight from isolation to one big happy family world-wide. A “subset” that you seem to consider worthy of criticism is a necessary step towards a better future.
And I do take offense when people insinuate that I am proud of anything but my very own accomplishments, because pride in something you had no part in (e.g. patriotism) is among the most moronic sentiments mankind ever came up with.