I would say mostly economic factors: common currency, common market, wide-scale trade among the countries. If one country is hit, the others will also suffer: this brings in the feeling of solidarity.
other than that, European culture is actually quite unified, with many shared valued, such as universal health care and religious freedom, yet connection to Christianity.
The ethnic group in question are the Kurds. The Kurdish
people do not have their own state but they are the majority in the
autonomous region located in Iraq called the Iraqi Kurdistan. It is estimated
that there are up to 45 million Kurds around the world. They speak a language called
Kurdish and are classified as a part of the Iranian Peoples which is a group of speakers
of the Iranian language from the Indo-European
ethno-linguistic group.
When a country is more specialized, it's able to make something or know how to make something better. If two countries are specialized in different areas, they can each trade their advanced goods instead of each country making moderately good products.
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