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I know many Germans who do so.
Incidentally, identifying as "European" rather than "German" is a quintessentially German thing to do. Heritage of THE WAR.
I'll happily calllmysrkf European. I'm not German, and I am a citizen kf one of the EUs more fractious members.
The German question has a longer history then the war. In the time where the German national hymn was written "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" was a call to abolish interstate borders between different German states. It was cosmopolitan in nature. Wanting a united Europe is not that different than wanting an united Germany.
At the same time most Germans who identify themselves on the internet still speak of themselves as German and not primarily as Europeans.
But I'm not certain that Raythen is German. He might also been born in one European country and living in another.
Might also have something to do with Germany being one of the few countries not getting shafted by the EU and thus not objecting to the identifier European.
That's a fairly recent development and national self identification runs deeper.
Building nation states and destroying them is no straightforward matter that you can do in a few years.
Good point.