This article focuses on how the European Union can withstand the pressures of diversity to remain a single entity. The article focuses on how the sense of history between two different people can separate them and yet bring them together later. The history of Europe reflects this amply when the later industrial wars bitterly divided the major powers of France and Germany. Yet by the 1950’s the two nations were ever more conciliatory under the ideal of a united nation as under Charlemagne.
The dangers it faced as a process of this evolution included hypocrisy of state and undermining the hierarchy of society. This has occurred in certain countries where it has led to a breakdown of social order. The ideal example per the paper would be Zimbabwe. Immediately after independence as the country attempted to keep peace between the blacks and whites, ethnic hatred tore across the country fuelling stereotypes. The paper also focuses on how stereotypes positively reinforce each other and how it sets a personality for all people of the country to emulate.
The power to discern negative stereotypes from the positive ones remains at the hands of the viewer. This article concludes by alluding that history might often make the right choice for us.
Bibliography:
Monnet, Jean. "How much diversity can the EU withstand?." miami.edu. University of Miami, 05 08 2005. Web. 26 Jan 2011. .
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