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Re:Studying the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on globa... by randompwd on Sunday January 31, 2021 @04:36PM (#25982794)
There is no "European" in the same way there is "American".

Europe country cultures are massively more different and diverse than US states.

There's only been free pan-EU movement since the Lisbon Treaty in December 2009. 11 years is not enough time to achieve the homogeneity that US citizens have from being single(dual at most) language, single currency & no borders for hundreds of years. Not to mention the similar pan US TV they all shared for decades.

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Re:Studying the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on globa... by vinay427 on Sunday January 31, 2021 @04:41PM (#25982824)
To be fair, this applies even more directly to the parent of the comment you replied to (GP), which asserted that you get a passport after 5 years. That's true in a few European countries but explicitly false in many others.
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