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Hammerfjord wrote:
We can't unite the lands of Europe like the states of America: Cultures are just too differents and separated, growing appart from each others since thousand years...
Very interesting perspective. In the states, it seems we are tearing ourselves apart over stark, irreconcilable political differences.
I guess that mentalities are mostly based on the life style, who's based on the climats, traditions/cultures and needs at the origin.
Funny exemple: A rig was prebuilded in Spain for an LNG plant placed near North-Cape in Norway...
When the Spanish guys arrived to mount some parts of it after that the rig's elements was arrived by boat, they started to make them one hour "siesta" after them one hour lunch everyday: Exactly as they was doing during the warmest hours of the day in Spain...
The Norwegian company went pissed over this low-motion job: You multiply that by workers and months...You loose much time and money...
They had, as an answer: "We do like that at home so we do it here".
It's never been as warm up there, as in Spain but try to explain that to those workers...hammer.gif
How can they have the same mentality and needs as us?
All in all it's deeper than that but it was a comic exemple who shows that different lands got different systems and if they should all be ruled by the same money, the same politic, it would end in constant disagreements and conflicts...