I am American and I have never seen photos like this. I had no idea there are borders like this. Even though I LOVE the idea of open borders, I am staring at these pictures like “wait…people can just…walk across some stones or grass and BE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY??? and nobody stops them?? how does that WORK?!” So you can tell that my country’s propaganda has gotten to me by convincing me that this CAN’T work even though…it…obviously can.
These pics just seem unreal to me. I’ve been taught my whole life that this can’t exist. In 27 years no one has ever sat me down and gone, look, here’s how it is elsewhere. It isn’t impossible at all.
I want to add something, but I’d just be restating what they said. I.. didn’t know peace and kindness like this was possible.
Wow. And here I am with my privileged mind thinking “who needs to see this? We all know this is how it goes” but I guess we don’t.
I do want to take the opportunity to say that living in the EU is a massive privilege. Yes, it costs money, yes a lot of things go wrong. But over 70 years of peace in an area formally known in history for it’s never ending wars is an incredible achievement and we have the EU to thank for that. Let’s not ever forget that our grandparents and their parents and their parents and so on for hundreds of years grew up in a hateful and unsafe Europe. We cannot compromise peace and democracy. Not for money, not for immigration bans. Nothing is worth more than what we have right now. These pictures, as the comments on this post show, are not ‘common everyday situations’, eventhough it can seem like it. Protect the open borders. Protect the EU.
My hometown is like five minutes away from France, my grandma sometimes gets baguettes from a baker right across the border
Also usually the only thing that tells you that you’re in a different country is a sign on the side of the road with the name of the country in the european flag, followed by a sign that tells you its speedlimits xD
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