Indeed - political and cultural fragmentation has been a key feature of European civilisation where as other great civilisations tended to be more unified. It also inevitably ends up in some sort of "great power conflict" every 100 years or so. On the other hand political disunity has probably created space for human freedom and progress in that time as well.
The only way you can do it is something like the Austro-Hungarian or Ottoman empire where a small disconnected ethnocracy rules the other populations by force.
It's also why I hate the term "white people" - what the fuck is white? A Frenchman and an Englishman are both "white" but we have nothing in common. An Italian and a Frenchman are both white but likewise have nothing in common. Pushing the term "white" on to people seems like a project of globohomo to me. To break down peoples identities and group them into some deracinated pool of watered down cultureless dog shit.
You know I remember seeing documents all the way back in 2005 where the EU was planning to abolish all the national borders and then impose these new regions on Europe like the Swiss cantons only with less rights and the South of England and northern France were both supposed to be part of the same region - like what on earth are you guys smoking? Our countries are literally nothing alike. We speak different languages. In England we play cricket, drink warm beer, drive on the left and don't eat frogs legs. The french even mock us for eating roast beef because that is apparently strange.
Indeed - political and cultural fragmentation has been a key feature of European civilisation where as other great civilisations tended to be more unified. It also inevitably ends up in some sort of "great power conflict" every 100 years or so. On the other hand political disunity has probably created space for human freedom and progress in that time as well.
The only way you can do it is something like the Austro-Hungarian or Ottoman empire where a small disconnected ethnocracy rules the other populations by force.
It's also why I hate the term "white people" - what the fuck is white? A Frenchman and an Englishman are both "white" but we have nothing in common. An Italian and a Frenchman are both white but likewise have nothing in common. Pushing the term "white" on to people seems like a project of globohomo to me. To break down peoples identities and group them into some deracinated pool of watered down cultureless dog shit.
You know I remember seeing documents all the way back in 2005 where the EU was planning to abolish all the national borders and then impose these new regions on Europe like the Swiss cantons only with less rights and the South of England and northern France were both supposed to be part of the same region - like what on earth are you guys smoking? Our countries are literally nothing alike. We speak different languages. In England we play cricket, drink warm beer, drive on the left and don't eat frogs legs. The french even mock us for eating roast beef because that is apparently strange.