Bald eagle - I've met very few Europeans that do not have a reasonable understanding of English so I hardly think that language is an issue to divide us in this day and age. How are we culturally near to the U.S.A? -I have worked for American and French companies and have found cultural differences in both. I cannot think on a day to day level of anything that we do in this country, the States or in any European country, that isn't the same because that's globalisation for yer. In Europe, the cultural differences that we have say musically, are compensated by shared experience in sport which we do not share with the USA. On an everyday basis I do not see myself as anything, when the Test Match is on I see myself as English, when the football is on I pretend to be German (joke) but I would prefer not to be anything at all because I am not a great beliver in dividing people up into nations -it only creates bother! I am however proud to be part of Europe and am aggrivates by the xenophobia/racism that still exists in this land.