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do you guys think that within the next hundred years Europe will fully unify into the United States of Europe? (pawb.social)
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Just wondering as an American watching the EU pool resources and mostly work for the same common goals over my lifetime.

To clarify, I'm not saying that this would be a part of the United States of America, but a separate world power.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The US did have that problem, too. There were settlers from all european countries who spoke all different languages, plus natives (albeit that the natives were genocided over time, so their languages were sorted out the other way), and at one point during the constitution process they had a vote on which language should become official. And it almost was german, btw.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

nd at one point during the constitution process they had a vote on which language should become official. And it almost was german, btw.

That's a modern myth. IIRC there was a newspaper that had to decide to publish either in German or English and they decided in favor of English. The USA doesn't have an official language but de facto it is English.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

I looked it up and we're both right and wrong. There was a vote, but it was about printing laws in german, additionally to english prints. And there is no federal official language, but some states codicized english as their official language, sometimes alongside other languages.

However, my point still stands as in the beginning, there were many different languages and they somehow managed to find a common one.