If an Inter-Dimensional being drifted down from the space between space, landed with a large thunk on its massive crystal cranium, and asked you to explain Europe to it, what would you say? Where would you begin? Would you start rattling off a general history of the continent? Or launch into long descriptions of the general characters of its many nations? Or try by whatever means to give a sense of the varied cultures in Europe?
Or would you instead simply try to explain that, more than anything, Europe has this very "Euro" feeling to it—A feeling that is, by and large, undefinable but nonetheless highly recognizable. It's a feeling that often involves