“The EU is roughly about the same size (geographically) as the US, but encompasses 27 different countries”
Nonsense! From the coast of Spain to the Eastern Border of Poland is about 1/3 of the USA or roughly the size of the part of America between the Mississippi River and the Atlantic coast. That is one of the major differences between the way Americans think and Europeans think.
IIRC it was Alistair Cooke who said ‘Americans think 100 years is a long time, Europeans think 100 miles is a long way.’
3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) USA
10,180,000 square kilometres (3,930,000 sq mi)Europe + western Russia and the former Warsaw pact states.
So you have to include parts of Eurasia that are not historically thought of as European to get the same land area as the USA.
I have often wondered if that Americans living in New England are so European in their outlook because they have the same short horizons the Europens do. Population density in the Blue states approaches European levels also.
I have never had the time or interest in doing the research to prove my theory.
Hopefully after Nov. 04, 2008, there will be a bunch of people leaving for Europe. I would love to see an exchange program, where the Americans that want to see America more like Europe and the Europeans that want to see Europe more like America swap places.
“An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven’t been done before.”
Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)
