Cypriot Bailout Sends Shivers Throughout the Euro Zone

Re:Cypriot Bailout Sends Shivers Throughout the Euro Zone by Swizec on Sunday March 17, 2013 @06:25PM (#5391350)

Remember, most of our countries formed in the 19th and early 20th century. Before that Germans for instance were Prussians, Bohemians, Moravians, Bavarians and so on. (39 states)

The French for instance only commonly adopted the same language in 1914. (When literacy rates were high enough for everyone to know French instead of regional languages).

Most countries in Europe were the same less than 200 years ago. I can easily see us being Europeans 100 years from now.

I know Slovenians (where I'm from) still considered it a novelty to think of themselves as Slovenians as late as the 1840's.

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Re:Cypriot Bailout Sends Shivers Throughout the Euro Zone by Nux on Sunday March 17, 2013 @06:38PM (#5391389)

Well, if this goes on for long enough, with open borders and such there's going to be a lot of mixing..

I'm not sure what we're going to call ourselves, but if nothing "explosive" happens in the next 2-3 centuries, I predict we'll be mostly brown-skinned and speak some sort of English.

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