Random thought: Forgiveness

[Fragony]

Holding grudges has caused mass slaughter all over Europe, while i would say taken down to the personal level it can help in some circumstances (though mostly its better to forgive and forget) on an international level grudges should hold no place!

One could argue that the english/french grudge is what keeps them in check when dealing with eachother, both prefer to keep meddling with eachother to a minimum making it less likely future hostility's will occur. A permanent state of hostility isn't the same thing as a permanent state of war.

As for football, Germany is our mortal enemy but we are jost poking fun at eachother, I am pretty sure the Germans enjoy the rivalry just as much as we do. The dutch hold no grudge against the germans for what happened in WW2, that probably makes us the most dangerous people in the world.