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Anatoly Karlin's avatar

This post takes me back. I briefly wrote about this debate in a retrospective on my time in the US back in 2016: https://akarlin.com/american-decade/

> Perhaps the most quintessential case for this was made by T.R. Reid’s book The United States of Europe. He argued that the EU was emerging as a superpower rivaling the US, held together by an emerging “Generation E” of yuppies from Paris to Berlin (soundtrack) that saw themselves as Europeans first and were rapidly integrating through the trifecta of Eurovision, Erasmus scholarships, and Eurail (much more eco-friendly than the American Canyonero!).

That said, terminally premature as the Eurotriumphalism was, it might not have been all wrong - I do think we have something like the ethnogenesis of a European nation occurring amongst the yuppies of the big European cities, and now spreading outwards.

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alex's avatar

Europeans are integrating fairly well amongst themselves. the immigration debates have solely to do with African/Arab migrants.

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