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[โ€“] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 24 points 3 days ago (6 children)

At this point I'm starting to worry that all this push to distance Europe from America will eventually strengthen some "European Nationalism" or something along that line and we'll be right back to the same problems in a few decades, just switching sides once more.

[โ€“] oyzmo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Not too worried. Europe is a great mix of countries with lots of diversity.

[โ€“] Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Europeanism, it's not one nation.

Which is fine. Europe is a world leader on globalism. Our -ism is about being proud of that.

[โ€“] HereIAm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That can still become very problematic though. Nationalists usually lean heavily on western culture and white supremacy, something Europe has plenty of. It's inevitable that the alt right will have a growing presence and influence in the EU parliament as they grow in each member state.

[โ€“] nico198x@europe.pub 1 points 15 hours ago

assholes like that will always find an excuse, no matter what. they don't own the concepts of pride and joy in one's home/culture. they just twist good things to serve their sick ends.

[โ€“] chuso@fedia.io 17 points 3 days ago

This is not new though. The EUPL have existed for almost two decades.

[โ€“] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago

That's why I'm also always trying to push the benefits of open data/source/etc onto my employers. It sometimes works too.

It's up to us as individuals to also make a fuss about this stuff here in EU. I love EU but I'm not blindly trusting every corpo that's from EU.

Choose local (in our case European/EU), but not blindly and naively.

[โ€“] MudMan@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago

Welcome to the concept of human history.

That said, this isn't particlarly new, or even that meaningful, and Europe has a LOT of US decoupling to do whether it wants to for nationalistic reasons or not. And a lot of integration, too, so they're a good ways away from having enough of a shared sense of identity for that to be a concern.

Your grandkids can cross that bridge when they get to it, if there are any bridges left to be crossed or grandkids to cross them.

[โ€“] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 3 days ago

If it's done with opensource and opendata, decoupling won't be a problem. In fact, it might even give the EU less leverage. They can threaten to stop supporting or developing an opensource project or providing open data, but any other nation or group can decide to continue.