United States of Europe

[Allybeboba]

Isn't soda water just carbonated water with no flavor though? Or people actually use that term when referring to coke or flavored soda?

Soda is that indeed. But people in Texas, particularly East Texas refer to carbonated drinks as "soda water". Some call simply "coke" or soda or pop.
Watch rent video I linked.

[Revi]

Sounds absolutely horrible. Luckily in won't happen voluntarily any time soon.

[God Save The King]

No. Let's make a United States of "<Insert Cool Name Here>" encompassing the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

[Noradin]

If a united Europe is to rise, we need to do more shit together. We need a bit army. More focus on each other. And we need a European President.
Presidential elections will put a lot of focus on what's going on in other countries. And get us feeling more like Europeans.

Uh no, we do not want that kind of election carnival/mudslinging competition the US holds to elect their president, thank you very much.

[Slant]

Uh no, we do not want that kind of election carnival/mudslinging competition the US holds to elect their president, thank you very much.

Signed so much my pen broke.

[Caerule]

Uh no, we do not want that kind of election carnival/mudslinging competition the US holds to elect their president, thank you very much.

Hey, I'm not saying it's desirable. I'm saying it'd work to bring greater unity to Europe.

[Tuor]

Have you read any Scots? They have changed a few letters, added in some slang and claimed it is not English. You can understand 95% of it off the bat.

Except its not the same with portuguese and spanish, Jesus, my mother doesn't understand spanish, and most spanish strugle really hard in understanding us. Anyway, there is another language that is closer to portuguese, the wiki article i linked says Castillan and Portuguese are sister languages, but it should state they cousin languages, not sister. The sister language of portuguese is Gallician, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galician_language .

[Deleted]

Yes. Though no system like the US. That is one messed up system. I want a democratic system.

Also, english as common language. Only choice.

Also, i'd prefer if the newborn country was called EU. No, USE. That's too american.

[Theodarzna]

Possibly, but it couldn't be as unified as some may want it. A lot of local autonomy would be necessary considering Europes vast cultural richness and diversity of languages. Several larger European states would also need to be divided somewhat to suite this, such as France (Brittany, Basque areas and Occitan areas) and then Spain (Basque, Galician, Catalonia, ect).

[Cybran]

There is more to diversity than just language my friend.

For Americans diversity means less white people. Diversity of culture, customs or ideas don't matter it seems.

[Slant]

Hey, I'm not saying it's desirable. I'm saying it'd work to bring greater unity to Europe.

No, it wouldn't. The US system is flawed in its core design and right now only works to bring discord to the electorate.

[Puupi]

Except its not the same with portuguese and spanish, Jesus, my mother doesn't understand spanish, and most spanish strugle really hard in understanding us. Anyway, there is another language that is closer to portuguese, the wiki article i linked says Castillan and Portuguese are sister languages, but it should state they cousin languages, not sister. The sister language of portuguese is Gallician, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galician_language .

There can be dialects within a language that aren't mutually intelligible to one another. In Finnish for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rauma_dialect

It's very hard to understand.

"Kat ko kat kara rapui" in Rauma dialect is the same as "Katso, kun kissa juoksee portaita" in standard Finnish. "Look, a cat is running up the stairs" in English (roughly).

Now why it's hard for a standard Finnish speaker to understand that is not only the difference of the languages, but that "katkarapu" means a shrimp in Finnish. So it sounds like the Rauma dialect speaker is saying something about shrimps.

[Deleted]

I believe we should have a united states of europe. But without the binary political system of the USA.

We should have a federal republic with many different parties who reflect many different interestst. With strong countries in the federation. And no powerful central government or even a president. The parliament should be the powerful part.

[Slant]

I believe we should have a united states of europe. But without the binary political system of the USA.

We should have a federal republic with many different parties who reflect many different interestst. With strong countries in the federation. And no powerful central government or even a president. The parliament should be the powerful part.

We should not get ahead of ourselves, too. the EU is doing the job for the moment. And sooner or later we'll realise that it basically is a federal republic already and just have to rename it. What you propose is probably nearer to what we have currently than the EC communities were.

[Noradin]

Hey, I'm not saying it's desirable. I'm saying it'd work to bring greater unity to Europe.

Bonding over shared disgust?

[Allybeboba]

For Americans diversity means less white people. Diversity of culture, customs or ideas don't matter it seems.

Are Italian-Americans considered "white people"? How about Americans whose ancestors hail from Spain?

[Noradin]

Are Italian-Americans considered "white people"? How about Americans whose ancestors hail from Spain?

Americans apparently do not consider them "white", Europeans do. (In both cases.)
At least that is how they get listed in statistics.

[Tyrianth]

Are Italian-Americans considered "white people"? How about Americans whose ancestors hail from Spain?

Yes? Why wouldn't they be? lol

[zephid]

What if the EU was dissolved and a new government was created similar to the United States? One that united all of Europe under a single governmental umbrella with a single goal. Your citizenship would be toward this U.S.E. and not your current "state". Europe would have one military, one government, one border, etc...

Would never happen.

[Tackhisis]

Also, english as common language. Only choice.

Less than 35% speak English in EU, so that is out of question.