Yeah Groj is right. Besides Yorick is clutching at straws with the "USA is just as diverse as Europe and so should get seperate votes like Europe" argument. We've already been through this, I didn't think it'd have to be explained to someone who seems to be intelligent. USA was established as a country pretty much by English and French colonsists IIRC and then loads of other people (all those nationalities you mentioned) immigrated to create the mixed-up wishy-washiness of ethnic groups that is the USA. They all came to join the USA. On the other hand, modern European countries are the result of ancient seperate tribes with their own culture and language settling down in different places and forming their own small countries which survive to this day. Modern day France was already established pretty much in the days of Charlemagne or whatever he was called, around 1000 years ago. Same with Hungary - the Magyars came over from Asia and settled where they still are around 960AD. A similar story can be told for nearly all European nations. They are still historically seperate cultures whereas USA started out as a country where all the mixture of people moved afterwards.
Leading on from this, just because Denmark has fewer people than China, it is still a complete entity, it is still one nation with their own culture and needs which they need represented on the international scene. I think one vote per government is the only realistic way to do it (as we do now), otherwise factions within a country will disagree and we'll have even more chaos than now
A government represents its people so why should you need more than one vote from within the same government - if a country can't even come to a consensus in itself, what hope is there for the world? A country is usually a country under one government because it was meant that way - those people wanted to live together in that nation.
[ 06-04-2003, 08:00 AM: Message edited by: Vaskez ]