This is a typical trend for most European countries. Fifty years ago, Denmark had a strong village community which was a self-contained unit, with farmhouses, shops, offices, schools and church. Now community life is disappearing. The few farms left produce not only for the local market but for the international market. At the beginning of the century, Denmark had a co-operative movement with over 10,000 small dairies.
Today there are two national dairies working towards the international market.
A monoculture cannot innovate, because it cannot see alternative ways and goals. I think that the concentration of business, cultural and social life is in a sense a trend towards a monoculture. Several European Commission project reports have also looked at some of these issues. In France, some of the biggest social problems are in the suburbs of Paris, and one of the suggested solutions is to encourage rural society frameworks to begin again. The trend is no longer towards self-contained large businesses defined in geographical terms.