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>>>The U.S. model of federal states and one president who can overrule all governors is a nightmare for Europe, simply because the borders between European countries also reflect significant cultural borders.
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>>That's already the case Peter please wake up....
>>As far as "cultural borders" are concerned do you really think they're no 'cultural differences ' between the 50 states of the US ?
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>There are the same one and a half languages in use all over the place; the same money is likewise in use for a couple of centuries; and even the same (con)federal culture of "this is how we do it here and no feds can tell us what to do" matches the same isolationism of "this is how we do things here and no ISO standards, IS units or whatever need show their ugly faces here - nobody tells US what to do". So while the legal and cultural differences among the states may in some cases be larger than between, say, Greece and Ireland, the habit of having those differences and being OK with them is, I think, the same all over the US.

I've probably missed your point entirely again.

Are you saying that the legal and cultural values of Greece and Ireland are more alike than those of two random american states or even two specifically chosen states? I would find that very hard to believe. In which ways do you find that to be true?