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/^t/Being European may be enjoyable but being still a Pole - proud of his/her traditions and feeling sure about the future is pleasurable as well. As a result, I incline towards the idea of "Europe of motherlands" - uniting and magnifying other countries rather than "European motherland" consolidated and standardised without any sense of national character.