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  • You can kind of think of the US like the EU

    Absolutely not. You can make a comparison with other federations like Germany or Switzerland maybe, but the EU is a very different political entity.

    Very different vibe between the two; very distinctly different accents, different mannerisms, different customs. They each have stereotypes about the other.

    This is true in all European countries as well, no matter how tiny.

    I’m not sure why you (seem to) feel that learning about other states is somehow “lesser” than learning about other countries

    See, this is what you seem to miss. We learn about other countries. We learn about yours as well, but not on a much deeper scale than where it is, its capitol and its political system. And well, it seems like some in Europe learn about your states as well, which is more than we do for other countries. I couldn’t name more than a couple of ‘states’ in my neighbouring countries and that I have learned as an adult.

    I don’t understand why you seem to think that size and population somehow would grant you extra interest. If that was the case India, Russia, Canada and China would all be more interesting than the US and we don’t give those extra attention.














  • Oh no, I didn’t assume you meant ethnicity, that was just an example and apartheid as well. It’s a better example than the US ‘equal but separate’. I just answered why Swedes are supposed to pay for non-Swedes.

    What I wanted to point out is that those who has residence in the country can’t be treated differently before the law. Citizenship or not, the law applies and all it’s benefits and consequences.

    On another note, the prison sentence is carried out and then the convict is deported, meaning we rehabilitated someone and then got rid of them, not benefiting from the rehabilitated person.