Perhaps it's obvious but then perhaps it's not. Try and remember my Transatlantic friends that Europe is not some sort of monolithic whole, like, well America or the Arab world. It's a whole lot of countries each with their own culture, language and view of the world. Sometimes there are different languages and cultures within a border, like Spain, with Basques and Catalans. In Italy some older people Southerners describe Northerners as foreigners. Belgium has two languages, Switzeraland has four. Germans are very conscious of the regions, Bavaria, Saxony etc.I won't even mention the Irish question, ooops I did. Britain has three countries. It goes on. They all have their own TV and political systems and varying views of America.
Don't make the mistake of thinking what the French say goes in Spain or what the British say goes anywhere. Indeed the British and Irish still tend to think of Europe as being over there much like Americans do.
Everybody in Europe doesn't think the same about any topic except perhaps having the freedom to express an opinion. The EU may purport to be a United Europe but really it's just of stopping us fighting each other again.
So don't generalise.
