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EU Culture: Unity in Diversity

The EU is a combination of 28 member states that are contracted by treaty to create an ever closer union.  What will this do to the separate cultures of Europe?  Will France be just like Italy in 20 years time?

The EU has appropriated a tactic from the Communist Empires to try to cut the ground out from under those who object to the homogenization of Europe into a single EU culture by using the term "Unity in Diversity".  However, numerous studies of what is actually happening in the EU expose this as a sham, as the American Cris Shore (2013) put it:



In other words, "Unity in Diversity" is part of a premeditated operation to destroy the identities of the Nation States within the EU.

Of course, people who have watched the development of the EU can see with their own eyes that the EU is becoming more uniform, although those who support the EU will declare that this is inevitable globalization despite the fact that the EU is actively committed to removing all barriers between its member states.

Shore's observation is borne out by numerous other authors.  Biscoe (2001), when considering how far the EU nurtures national cultures "..concludes that the EU's efforts in this field are mainly of symbolic importance..".  Berger and Huntington (2001) noticed that this even extends into removing national religions "As countries are absorbed into the “European project,” a distinctive “Euro-secularity” seems to be part of the deal — it  can be observed most dramatically today in Poland and Ireland. "  As Lähdesmäkia (2011) puts it  "On all levels of the EU’s cultural policy, the rhetoric of European cultural identity and its ‘unitedness in diversity’ is related with the ideas and practices of fostering common cultural heritage."

It is obvious that the reason the EU funds cultural activities is to cement its position as the real National Entity in the EU rather than the Nation States.  Almost all academic and research articles, whether pro or anti EU recognize this basic fact.  Those who deny this truth are simply lying about the stated aim of "ever closer union", either lying to themselves or hoping to mislead those who are ignorant of what is happening, especially the young.



 
Berger, P.L. & Huntington, S.P. (2002) Many Globalizations: Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary World   Berger, P.L. and Huntington, S.P  Editors OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Biscoe, A (2001) European Integration and the Maintenance of Regional Cultural Diversity: Symbiosis or Symbolism? DOI:10.1080/00343400120025673

Lähdesmäkia, T (2011) Rhetoric of unity and cultural diversity in the making of European cultural identity. DOI:10.1080/10286632.2011.561335

Shore, C. (2013) Building Europe: The Cultural Politics of European Integration Routledge, 2013 ISBN    1136283528, 9781136283529

14/12/15

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