European language?

Me above: "And of course, dealing with the challenge of cultural clashes as a result of immigration from other continents is one common to all of Europe, continental or insular alike."

Sorry, I meant "the challenge of dealing with", not "dealing with the challenge."

what about scandinavian :P??

Just another correction: make "recent history" into "history during the past century" as I am not sure how long a time span "recent" may suggest for native English speakers (for me, it is synonymous with "spanning over two or three full generations", roughly, but then, I am not a native speaker).

Thank you, Easterner. I understand what you mean now.

And I agree that there are still some quite significant differences between Western and Eastern Europe. I went to Poland a few months ago with some German students, and met some Polish students there. I'm British, and the German students really seemed exactly the same as us (except that German was their native language), but the Polish seemed quite different. It seems to be changing though.