18th April 2005, 3:32 PM
A Black Falcon Wrote:You're mostly right, OB1... I'd just be a bit more hesitant about Europe (and human nature in general, by extension -- sure, they like eachother well enough, but people from third-world nations? Those people they aren't as big fans of... that is, they may spend money to help them in their own nations, but they also do their best to limit immigration. Racial purity and all that... Europe has much more xenophobic immigration laws than, say, the US. But that's explained by history... they are mostly single-culture societies, while we are a nation built by immigrants, and the majority isn't in favor of shutting that down. Things are different in Europe (or Japan) where that is not the case.
But other than that... yes, you're right.
Well, immigration laws in Europe have become more strict in recent years because 9/11 and the terrorist attacks in Spain. It's much more difficult to move to Holland now than it was just five years ago, for instance. But there's definitely far, far less xenophobia in Europe than in the U.S. You'll find movies from all over the world doing well in just about every country in Europe, and people being much more open to different cultures than they are over here. The EU has strengthened this sense of diversity of community even further.