What? Nobel Peace Prize awarded to European Union

[Zabaniyah]

Really? You constantly see threads here about skin color and chaste sytem, race and IQ. I guess that must be a different South Asia. India is rather racially homogenious, its ethnic groups that are discriminated against. We hear so often of the dreaded Dalits.

India is perhaps the most culturally diverse nation in the world. There are plenty of subcultures with many differences. Bengali culture for instance is quite different from that of Punjabi culture. Including language.

Dalits are not an ethnic group. They are a caste.

And race is not a Westen concept any more than biological classification is a western concept.

The point once again: Europe has managed to unite into a peaceful economic unit, putting aside their differences. Something India has failed to do with its neighbors.

Well, Europe has come a long way. Yes, it has a bloody history. But it has achieved peace after WWII. Even instigating trade between traditionally hostile states like France and Germany. It most certainly did raise living standards, peace and most importantly - unity.

About India, there is a saying in my country: Bharot e pasher takhle, oi desher shomosha shobshomoy thakbe.

It is a burden living near that country. It doesn't have great relations with a single country in its immediate neighborhood. Be it Pakistan or Sri Lanka. Nepal and Bhutan are all but vassal states.

Suffice to say, given the Indian subcontinent's huge population and decent level of resources, it's inter-regional trade is dismal compared to even ASEAN. I'm not even going to compare that to the EU.

Your whole argument is based off an unachieveble utopia. Racism/ethnocentrism always exits, and certainly does so in India.
I still believe compared to North America, Asia, Latin America; Europe has the highest living standards, and tries the best to give its immigrants/minorities rights.

Something the Arabs, Chinese, Japanese, Iranians lag behind in.

Actually, it is in North America where people of different cultural and religious backgrounds mix better compared to Europe.

I can say that from first hand experience. After all, present day North America are of immigrant heritage for the most part.

The Japanese are a very homogeneous and a high context culture. This similarly can be said about Arabs.

Some people mix in with foreign origin people better. Others don't.

Anyway, If Europe had less muslims, Jews, like they do in East Asia, it would have been more peaceful.

East Asia has a peaceful history? Come on. Ever knew how wicked those Far Eastern Asians were? Sheesh...

Add the bloody Mongols to that.

Muslim migration into Europe is only recent. Jews on the other hand were simply made scapegoats by Hitler in reflection to Germany's problems at the time. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[mfreak]

Again missing the point. Im going to stay on topic.
Do you know how many wars Spain, France, Germany, etc fought with one another? Their conflicts had dominated the globe in earlier times. The fact that they put aside their differences and decided to cooperate is why the prize is being given.

If India, Pakistan did the same, it too would be worthy of a prize, regardless of social ills in the respective nations.
We are talkin governmental level here. Not from a minority POV.

I am talking about governmental level indeed. Today Europe does not war each other, they war the middle east. They bomb them, torture them, indefinitely detain them etc etc., So how can these countries be awarded the peace prize, just cuz their home countries are peaceful? And at that very same instant they are actually killing people elsewhere? They shouldnt be. When you give a nobel prize for peace to someone, that person should actually do something for humanity. Like Mother Theresa for example. Not EU. They actually violate the human rights of others.

Secondly, the prize is supposed to be for individuals that have contributed something extraordinary. Like Mother Theresa. Or Gandhi. Not for states and governments. This was a stupid decision by the committee.

Lastly I dont really care about India or Pakistan winning the prize. Am saying it shouldnt go to countries or govts at all in the first place.

In sum, a slow-moving bureaucracy wracked by austerity protests, sky-high unemployment and anti-E.U. sentiment is not especially deserving of the honor, which in the past has gone to human-rights visionaries such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Teresa.

 

[Raja.Pakistani]

EU deserve peace award because from last 10+ years they never faced any invasion/war from USA but instead their leaders managed to help US in its military adventure

another peace award should go to MR Bush

 

[fallstuff]

How & where exactly did Peace reign from the barrel of that gun?

The PEACEKEEPER ICBM WITH TEN WARHEADS.

LGM-118A [MX] Peacekeeper ICBM United States Nuclear Forces

 

[WS-10 Engine]

I'm so happy Europe is going bankrupt and their middle classes shrinking.
I love it.
These imperialist pigs must all go bankrupt.
Couldn't happen to a better bunch of arseholes.

Rot in hell Europe!

 

[notsuperstitious]

It actually makes sense, scores of countries moving towards removing boundaries and co existence - such an effort is unparalleled in human history.

 

[888jamie888]

I'm so happy Europe is going bankrupt and their middle classes shrinking.
I love it.
These imperialist pigs must all go bankrupt.
Couldn't happen to a better bunch of arseholes.

Rot in hell Europe!

Nice to meet you too fella.
Obviously manners are lacking in China.

 

[kawaraj]

Nice to meet you too fella.
Obviously manners are lacking in China.

well you obviously ignore that's the sentiment of all non-european nations from sunrise to sunset. China and Japan of east asia are certainly the least afflicted nations in colony era.

think about all this Subcontinent/British Indian bitter past and how much gold, wealth you had stolen from this land for hundreds of years and those tears of history you caused to this land for centuries. We hate you and stop selling you are the judge theory.

Plus all Africans and MEers and Native americans hate you and want to bury all your colonists nation in hell. Europeans/American settlers had slaughtered more than 2 billion native americans from Alaska to Argentina.

What a nice prize.

 

[Audio]

Nice to meet you too fella.
Obviously manners are lacking in China.

Must be the reason why they are denied entry into that French hotel.

 

[Wright]

well you obviously ignore that's the sentiment of all non-european nations from sunrise to sunset. China and Japan of east asia are certainly the least afflicted nations in colony era.

think about all this Subcontinent/British Indian bitter past and how much gold, wealth you had stolen from this land for hundreds of years and those tears of history you caused to this land for centuries. We hate you and stop selling you are the judge theory.

Plus all Africans and MEers and Native americans hate you and want to bury all your colonists nation in hell. Europeans/American settlers had slaughtered more than 2 billion native americans from Alaska to Argentina.

What a nice prize.

The hatred between neighbor nations tends to run deeper than hatred for any outsider, and they are often willing to cooperate with anyone who can help eliminate the regional competitor.

China first has a score to settle with Japan, and then India, and maybe Russia after that...