A friend of mine posted the following magazine cover on facebook today. He went on a rant about how the EU is fecked and we can't count on any solidarity.
But putting that aside, by now I assume a really big percentage of europeans have traveled throughout Europe. I believe the magazine is dutch and you can't walk 10 meters in Lisbon without listening to dutch or german or a scandinavian language. This being the case, people have witnessed with their own eyes how different countries work and the lifestyle its peoples have. Not statistics (that show the average portuguese/spanish/greek works more hours and gets less money that northern europeans) but things they can actually see with their eyes.
So how can this completely stereotypical view still exist nowadays?
But putting that aside, by now I assume a really big percentage of europeans have traveled throughout Europe. I believe the magazine is dutch and you can't walk 10 meters in Lisbon without listening to dutch or german or a scandinavian language. This being the case, people have witnessed with their own eyes how different countries work and the lifestyle its peoples have. Not statistics (that show the average portuguese/spanish/greek works more hours and gets less money that northern europeans) but things they can actually see with their eyes.
So how can this completely stereotypical view still exist nowadays?