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Understanding the US "Debt Limit"
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Astenion
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#21 - 2013-02-27 01:02:46 UTC
I've never heard of anyone calling a Russian a European, though. Brits I can understand because they've never felt they were part of mainland Europe, and by most accounts aren't. They may not be "Europeans" geographically-speaking, but culturally I'd say they were. But Russian? Calling a Russian a European would be like calling an Asian a European.

Where do we draw the line? Are the Finns European then, known for the Saami people? What about the Greeks? I think the term "European" is only used to group nations geographically, not culturally. That's where western, eastern, northern, and southern European descriptions come in.
Kirjava
Lothian Enterprises
#22 - 2013-02-27 01:31:34 UTC
European would be of nations and cultures of the European continent, of which 40% is in Russia. The former capital of St Petersburg was built for better communications via the Baltic with the rest of Europe. Been taking a few Russian classes, and from what I've gathered from the foreign exchanges, they are European. The most powerful European country and the biggest nation on Earth, but still at its core a European nation, the amount of Russian derived from French is enlightening.

The British is self explanatory, there is an inconvenient puddle in the way that gives us an island mentality, but which has proven to be useless since the Chunnel was built.

And yes the Finns are Scandanavian and hence European, the one that sticks out like a sore thumb is Turkey though.

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Astenion
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#23 - 2013-02-27 10:29:36 UTC
St. Petersburg. Completely overlooked it. Interesting insight into all this.

My questions are by and large rhetorical, as Scandinavia is of course a part of Europe. I'm just playing devil's advocate due to the wide gap between the cultures within Europe. Turkey, however, as you said sticks out like a sore thumb...mainly because it's not a European country. It has a lot of European influences and in many ways is very modern, but it simply isn't a European country. It has tried to gain partnership to the EU but has been rejected every time due to several factors.
Vilnius Zar
SDC Multi Ten
#24 - 2013-02-27 13:01:04 UTC
Astenion wrote:
LOL watch his video on Holland vs. The Netherlands. I had no idea the Dutch were such complicated people.


Actually, we Dutch are so mellow and so not nationalist that we don't care at all, we'll use both Holland and Netherlands as if it were the same. We honestly don't give a crap about stuff like that, our country is too small to have such a big ego about it.
Astenion
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#25 - 2013-02-27 17:48:05 UTC
I didn't mean you personally, just that historically it was quite a complicated situation.
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