How has Europe changed during the past 30 years?  How has it remained the same?
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THIS PROBABLY REQUIRES A LENGTHY ESSAY?!\n\nHOW IT HAS CHANGED \n\nFOR THIS YOU MAY WANT TO GO BACK 60 YEARS AT THE END OF WWII.  BASICALLY, EUROPE WAS SPLIT INTO TWO THE WEST (NATO) AND EAST (WARSAW PACT).  MILITARY BUILDUP ON BOTH SIDES GREW CONTINUOUSLY UNTIL THE END OF THE COLD WAR. \n\nTHEN WHEN THE IRON CURTAIN FELL AND COMMUNISM FAILED IN 1989, EUROPE REALLY BECAME A LARGE CONFEDERATION UNDER THE NEW EUROPEAN COMMON MARKET.  DEMOCRACY WAS FLOODED ALL THE WAY PAST WARSAW AND INTO RUSSIA.  IN 1994 I WAS IN PRAGUE THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND THEY ALREADY HAD A K-MART IN THE TOWN SQUARE! IT WAS MUCH DIFFERENT THAN OUR TRADITIONAL K-MART MORE LIKE A SAFEWAY OR A RALEYS SUPERMARKET.  NEW MARKETS  AND TRANSPORTATION OPENED FOR THE EAST.\n\nANYWHO, AS TIME PASSED AND THE EURO DOLLAR HAS BEEN ISSUED, A STRONGER UNION OF THE INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES ARE BINDING CLOSER TOGETHER THAT MAY EVENTUALLY FORM A UNITED EUROPE SOME YEARS TO COME.  \n\nMANY NEW CHALLENGES FACE MODERN EUROPE;\nIMMIGRATION HAS INCREASED, SPECIFICALLY FROM THE MIDDLE EAST, ECONOMIC DIVERSITY HAS BEEN CHALLENGING BETWEEN NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN EUROPE.  TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT HAS INCREASED,  THERE IS JUST SO MUCH ABOUT THESE EVENTS...TOO MUCH TO LIST.\n\nHOW IT HAS REMAINED THE SAME, THAT I KNOW OF:\n\nEACH REGIONAL AREA HAS MAINTAINED ITS OWN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE.  MOST EDUCATED PEOPLE SPEAK SEVERAL LANGUAGES OR AT LEAST TWO (MOTHER TONGUE AND ENGLISH).
556258
Here are lots of things that happened.  I don't think they are called current events when they happened thirty years ago though!
605274
People from Western Europe/US tend to think of Eastern Europe and former Soviet countries as "not European" I have noticed....I guess because those countries were closed off for so long? Or they're arrogant? I don't know. Lame but true!
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Francisco Franco took leadership of a country totally ruined by civil war The big problem was that he was a totalitarian dictator and held the people in hi "fist" for all those years, instead of allowing the country to modernize and be prosperous.\nI was assigned in Spain on 2 tours (4 and 3 years), and came here to live when we retired from active duty in 1974. There is absolutely NO similarity between Spain in 1974 and now, except the customs and language.\nBut all the progress has taken some toll too. The cost of property in this country for example, just as in most of Europe, is very high. What people would buy for $70,000 in the U.S. would cost at least triple that here. And the wage levels have not kept up.\nThere are certain aspects of life here that very positive, ans a few that are quite negative.\nImpact?  I guess you could just say that Spain was held back for something over 45 years, and is just now starting to really catch up.
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People are the same, its the technology that has changed. Thus, people are able to cheat, steal, lie, cover up, etc. more efficiently than they could 20 years ago. It was a dog-eat-dog world 20 years ago, and its still dog-eat-dog world today.
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as old as time. traditions and religions have changed and evolved over time.
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It depends which country in Europe - it is a big and diverse place.  However, very generally speaking:\n\nMain schooling in both is from 5 - 18 with college after that.\n\nHowever, European students tend to specialize in subjects earlier.  For instance, UK students have to choose a subset of subjects to focus on at age 14 for exams at age 16 and then an even lesser set have to be chosen at age 16 for exams at 18.\n\nIt has often been said that this and the aggressive pace in college means that by 18, European students are much better educated, but by 22 at the end of college, the differences even out between Europe and the US.
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Tough question....\nMuch of Europe, particularly in the north, was growing rapidly though industrialization.  This was an era of urbanization and more overland trade, as the railroads allowed for transport across the country, rather than just coastal towns shipping oversea.\nGermany was brought together for the first time as a unified entity, rather than just a collection of disparate principalities, setting the stage for big conflict in the 20th Century.\nIn southern and eastern Europe, the Ottoman Empire was in great decline, as was the Austro-Hungarian.  Both were supplanted by the growing influence and wealth of the English and French colonial empires, with resources from abrouad fueling finance and manufacturing at home.
535695
They are completely different and both are very important for progress of a country. They were interdependent to much extent in historical times, now that's not the case.
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The EU will survive for a very long time. Its main objective is to eliminate borders and create a single European state. If this succeeds, considering that over half the world's military and political power rests in the European continent, it will survive for very, very long time.\n\nEurope is continent where the vast majority of inventions that changed our lives were created. It is the land of many achievements. It is a land of freedom, no matter what others will say. Europe is (and will be) the world's largest political, economical and social center. \n\nThings have always changed, yet Europe remained the same. Africa, Australia, America--all these were discovered and colonized by European travelers. Even though all of them are the daughters of Europe, they never achieved its greatness.\n\nEven though she has been ravaged by many wars, Europe survived. The conflicts she has seen are innumerable. We can't say that about any other continent. For example, the Romanian countries stand against the Ottoman Empire--they have kept it from advancing for half a millennium and rised above it in battle each and every time. How about the Serbians and the Bulgarians who fought wildly for their freedom?\n\nEurope is not a land of modern fascism, it is a symbol of democracy, something that the USA hasn't managed to remain.
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how do you compare the lifestyle of today to your time period? \nwhat is your view on todays goverment compared to your time period?\ngas and economy?\nrace?\nwar?\nemployment?\nworld affairs?
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1. Cost of living - housing and transport expenses are now prohibitive, many new couples will never be homeowners.\n2. Political consensus - with the rise of "New" Labour there is now little difference between the two major political parties at election time. \n3. Government ethics - the present government ignores public opinion (e.g. Iraq), it's just as sleazy as previous Conservative governments, and our Prime Minister comes across as untrustworthy and insincere.\n4. Economic base - our manufacturing industries were destroyed in the 1980s, and now our service sector is under attack (e.g. call centres transferred to India).\n5. Multicultural society - polarisation is happening, especially Muslim vs non-Muslim (as a result of 7 July 2005 bombs, veil/clothing issues, activists inside UK, events around the world)
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through out history europe has constantly been changing bounderies and borders. i dont think they will ever become a single nation because of too many different cultures and ethnicities. maybe though. but would it be a change for the better?
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yes schooling has changed in the last 30 years what i am learning in forth grade my parents learned in high school
1148865
They wouldn't have changed at all over the past 500 years.\n\nReal progress only happens by merging different ideas.
1069336
our country hasn't changed any morels or values...they have "lost" them..and as long as they are lost our generation and the ones to follow will only continue to see the side effects...children killing parents, parents killing children, child pron, disrespect, and the list goes on.....in todays sociaty either everything is considered "ok"..and if not then they label it with a diease and then it's still "ok"......
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i think the world is going down hill fast i think 20 yrs ago was alot better really...technology is nice but it has took over so much people can't seem to live without it