Amid the Rhine Empire national anthem and the salutes of ceremonial guns, the East African Lion flag slowly rose. All the East Africans present stood and sang the national anthem, greatly shocking the diplomats in attendance. This detail was not merely for show, but a manifestation of cohesion.
More than two hundred thousand people attended the ceremony today. The spectacle of two hundred thousand voices singing the East Africa National Anthem together was naturally unparalleled.
"East Africa's cohesion is incredibly powerful. No wonder it rose into a world power in barely thirty years. The Hechingen Royal Family's grasp of the East African people's hearts exceeds all imagination," French Ambassador Lawrence commented objectively.
"Indeed. Although East Africa is a nation of many immigrants, its sense of cultural identity is absolutely beyond comparison with upstarts like the United States. In East Africa, I have never seen the ugly frictions between the Yellow race and whites. In the United States, even whites are divided into ranks of high and low. The East African government's methods of indoctrinating the populace are truly brilliant," Spanish Ambassador William echoed.
The cohesion displayed by the East African people at this moment left William both stunned and envious. After all, his homeland, Spain, was deeply divided within, and that had always been one of the Kingdom of Spain's weak points.
As a Frenchman, Lawrence could not truly appreciate this. The French had always possessed a powerful sense of national identity; even in the twenty-first century, many Black people regarded France as their motherland, which also demonstrated the inclusiveness of French culture.
Of course, East Africa was not as perfect as they imagined. As a nation forcibly kneaded together by the Hechingen Royal Family, East Africa had possessed a chain of contempt ever since the colonial era. Yet as