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Originally Posted by Obadno
But they really dont work like that, I understand if an Englishman in England feels a great sense of cohesion and sympathy for other Englishmen even some for the Welsh and Scotts and Irish too ...sometimes.
But do you get that same feeling for French? Greeks? Poles?
I doubt it.
Americans dont have that kind of sense there is not an "american" identity that people all flock to. The Americans view their national interest in a way native Europeans simply dont understand. We see each other much the way different European states in the EU see each other not the way people within France or Germany or England might see each other. So while intellectually the average person "cares" about the poor as a statistic but they "care" in the same way you care about poor Polish villagers.
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What is this based on? you seem to be eager to extrapolate huge generalities from your personal experiences and attitudes, and it's a little weird you view people in New Jersey in the same way you think someone in England views the Polish.