Europe: A Combination of Unity and Diversity
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 by Eva.Usermaatre
Several sentences remain very deep impression on me after the 1st lesson: it is very hard to explain the term：Europe by a conventional way and Europe is a more mental activity and process than a physical area in geographical view. What’s more, Europe is a work that is still on going.Europe can not be conventionally described. It is a kind of combination of diversity and unity and it is quite surprise that such a philosophical concept can exist both in history and modern day.
What’s the diversity of Europe? Although it is the fact that Europe is a kind of mental work, some diversity do exist in this geographically considered subcontinent, the westernmost part of Eurasia. First of all, the very different natural environment gives different features of this subcontinent. It has various climates, different geographical construes and so on. All these provide a perfect condition for the birth of distinctive sub-civilizations.
Second, the difference of ethnic also gives Europe a very interesting looking. Because of the unique position of Europe: to the east, it is widely open to Asia, so, large number of migrations occurred in history, provides the chance of large population integration. Therefore, the origin of European is from Asia. What’s more, the migrations inside Europe was and in taking place. So, it is very stupid to consider European as a whole race.
Culturally and historically, although it is undeniable that a number of historical events do post great influence on Europe, which gives Europeans something in common, some varieties also exist in Europe. For instance, every country has its own development of history and each country has its own distinctive culture and custom. Due to these sub-civilizations Europeans carry and keep in a long period, they were hostile to each other, but also because of these diversity, Europeans tended to be united.
Throughout the history, the entire Europe witnessed multiple historical events which had great influence on Europeans and led them to a level that something in common in their mind and in the ways of doing things. From the time of Greece to Rome Empire then the age of Christianity, the medieval Europe, the renaissance, the concepts of liberty, democracy, the common shared religion, the way of thinking, all these valuable heritages have been inherited by Europeans. This is the unity of all Europeans. Based on this common shared history, Europeans are now building something will bring them more united—European Union. Economically, a free market is protected and shared by Europeans, and politically, democracy, humanism, and liberty are guaranteed by government. Europeans are on their way to a new way of development.
However, unity should be maintained, it doesn’t mean that diversity have to be thrown away. Europe can not be united in a traditional way, because since the conqueror of Napoleon, Europeans have learnt from the failures of different attempts which all tried to unite Europe as a whole. Diversity is the strength is Europe. And Europeans want to remain diverse but also at some level, united.
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