"Europe is seen from the Other Europe in various ways. Those who saw it as a great promise or paradise are fewer today than yesterday. Caution is increasingly replacing the previous naivety. A critical spirit is awakening, and even if it is late in the day, it can spot more than one contradiction. Among some of the intelligentsia, particularly with those more liberated than other social strata, the sentiment is sometimes expressed, not often enough, in varying forms, and rarely in a clear fashion or strong voice, that it would be desirable for the future Europe to be less Eurocentric than in the past. That would mean a Europe more open to others than was colonialist Europe, less selfish than the Europe of nations, more conscious of itself and less subjected to Americanisation."