One Europe

Jerry F. Hough’s vision of “our common home,” one Europe, extending westward from Tokyo to Los Angeles and south to Buenos Aires, based on a common cultural heritage, is a vision of exclusion (“A Flawed View of Future Europe,” Op-Ed Page, May 3.) In Central and South America there are all too many instances of European dominance at the expense of Indian peoples. The Soviet Union must eventually come to terms with its Asian nationalities as well as those on its European borders.

Most appallingly, this vision is explicitly based on the notion that China and India pose a “potential threat” which will be the motivation for creating this common European home.

We in the United States wrestle continually with prejudice and discrimination because of perceived differences between people. We have a way to go to arrive at acceptance of those differences but at least the wrestling continues. Of all nations we should reject the notion of a common heritage as the foundation of foreign policy. Of all nations we should hold the ideal that the Earth’s diverse cultures can and must live together in harmony.

JANET V. KELBLEY

Rancho Palos Verdes