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Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by schroeding on Sunday April 02, 2023 @03:33PM (#35414228)
What is "european culture"? :)

Honest question in good faith, as even some individual EU countries don't have a consistent culture (think e.g. Germany) and at least for my very tiny slice of Europe, the culture and regional customs are still very much alive! :D

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Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by whitemary on Sunday April 02, 2023 @03:35PM (#35414248)
It’s the aggregate of culture(s) in Europe. Delineate them as you wish, or not. It’s irrelevant to their point.

I sympathize with concerns of mythologizing culture into existence, as is usually done in the process of nation state formation, but it’s a poor grounds for being a pedant.

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