I live in Europe. There are no two countries alike and in each country, you have some regions with different dialects and cultures. There is not one language alike although there are similarities between some languages that, in theory, would make it easy for you to learn the others but is far from being correct.
The majority of the countries, Portugal excluded, have nationalist parties, which are not that nice. Some countries have many mountains and snow others have almost none. Some countries have ocean and sea; many have no proximity with water. Temperatures are very different from country to country. In all countries, there are nice people and people that are not so nice.
We are all different, have centuries of history behind and centuries of history in families too. We all want to keep our differences and it is better you don’t say that Portugal is a province of Spain, we don’t like it at all and the Spanish don’t like it too. The same goes with Wales and Ireland, for instance, don’t ask “are you English”, meaning British. In Spain, Basks and Catalans prefer to be Basks and Catalans. In Italy, people say that after Rome is the “north Africa,” the south of Italy has a different opinion.
Sounds confusing? It is not, we get along very well, and we never ever ask ourselves whether Merry Christmas is “politically correct.”
I do not think that the fact US unemployment rate is 8.6% but Florida’s is just over 10% means US is a tribe
I do not think that the fact Florida’s GDP would rank 20th among world economies (without considering other US States) while California has a GDP of US$1.9 Trillion which would rank her between France and Italy, means US is a tribe.
I do not think that the fact US 50 States sharing the same language, currency, Federal government and banking system yet having different rules in each of those 50 sates means US is a tribe.
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