It ' s weird to see people not have faith in Ewing . The man turns Bendisflavored crap into Starlinflavored gold , of course he wasn ' t going to fuck up the Maker of all things . <| sep |> There once was a man named daveWho found a dead whore in a caveHe said oh well i can get used to the smellAnd just think of the money ill save <| sep |> To some extent , your arguments may be interesting , but one could argue that The World changed a bit during the last 1500 years between the Roman Empire and now , so the comparison between that military power that was Rome and the economic union born after one of the most devastative conflict mankind ever experienced that is the EU may not be that relevant , to say the least , There is a European identity on the rise , even if there ' s nothing patriotic nor worldwidly recognized about it , as some people of my generation 90 s , considered as ' youth ' feel definitely ' European ' more than nationalists , probably due to the fact that even the ' middle class ' may sometimes travel very easily from one EU country to another , Some parts of some Euro cultures is seen rather positively in the world I used to live in Tokyo , Japan , for a while , and I was baffled by the way many people there were fascinated by French culture for example , by putting French words and shit everywhere without it making any more sense than it sounds rather poshnice like a bicycle with Fromage written on it , or another one with Le parfum du de de l ' eau du mode secret , which make no sense whatsoever . Disclaimer I ' m saying this as a French guy from a workingclass family but whose sister now lives in London and whose cousin lives in Germany , so you ' ll have to take some of my words with a big grain of salt