Altered Maps 2: Uber-Yugoslavia FTW

[Tani Coyote]

@tailles

...I think Islam loses this one.

 

[Tee Kay]

Here's a prediction: Fifty years from now (probably less) Christianity will become the biggest religion in China.

Christianity is already the biggest religion in South Korea. The day is not far off when Christianity become the largest religion in East Asia, even if people continue to practice some elements of Confucianism or Buddhism.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

That's because so many of the Confucian/Taoist/Buddhists are becoming atheists, while missionary activity grows.

 

[dutchfire]

Tiny country, that and most of it should be underwater to begin with...

Well, actually, it's true..

 

[Mirc]

The Bigger the Wheel, the more Roma are in the country. The more Greener the country is, the more percentage of the countries total population is roma. Romania is at 8.7% for reference.

What... the hell? 8.7%? Close to TWO MILLION?

 

[cubsfan6506]

Wiki says only 2.5%

 

[say1988]

It also says that that is questionable and can go from much less to as high as 11%.

 

[Tani Coyote]

Well, actually, it's true..

Well, at least on that map, since Holland is nowhere to be found, I think we can assume that your signature is true. ...Of course, you have to share Hell with the Americans, and worse - the French!

(No offense to anybody who's French or Dutch, I can be a joker.)

 

[Mirc]

It also says that that is questionable and can go from much less to as high as 11%.

Sure, the Dalai Lama is Roma too, didn't you know?

(of course it's questionable considering they are not simply an ethnic group, but rather a group of very varied ethnic groups living after similar cultural/moral standards, which makes for very blurry lines. But going at 11% is just as realistic as what I said above)

 

[say1988]

I don't know enough about Romania to say what is right or wrong.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Wiki says only 2.5%

Funny, i got the map from Wikipedia...

 

[TheLastOne36]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Roma_in_Europe_2007_map-fr.svg here for the pic.

It says there are 2.4 million Roma in Romania.

 

[Mirc]

2,400,000

Yet the same article says "There are an estimated 4 million Romani people in Europe and Asia Minor (as of 2002)."

Which would render 2.4 in Romania alone utterly impossible.


With the clarification:
"although some high estimates by Romani organizations give numbers as high as 14 million."
Which however has the following tiny footnote:
"Pan and Pfeil (2004), collection of sources at the Council of Europe website, where high estimates are notably due to the state report of the Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM)"

Which says that basically only one important source puts the estimate that high.



In any case, this is very, very off topic.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Well anyway, i was very suprised with Cyprus, having so few of them, Cyprus has great living conditions and is a combo of two of the most populated Roma countries, Greece and Turkey.

 

[Dann]

Here's a prediction: Fifty years from now (probably less) Christianity will become the biggest religion in China.

Christianity is already the biggest religion in South Korea. The day is not far off when Christianity become the largest religion in East Asia, even if people continue to practice some elements of Confucianism or Buddhism.

Even so, that doesn't mean it will be time for Christendom to start celebrating, but rather time to start tearing at their hair. For the Chinese have this tendency to Sinicize all religions that enter their lives and make it into a Bizarro-like mutation of its original. (See what happened to Buddhism for reference.) Christianity, if it becomes mainstream in China, will change into... something else. You will soon see people lighting joss sticks to Jesus and the Virgin Mary and praying for good luck. It's already happening in overseas Chinese communities.

That's because so many of the Confucian/Taoist/Buddhists are becoming atheists, while missionary activity grows.

The Chinese have never taken religion too seriously. Since antiquity they pray to their ever expanding number of gods asking for protection and whatnot but never allow religion to take too much influence over their daily lives. So it's really quite easy for them to adopt to atheism when it's "the right thing to do" and more practical to do so.

 

[Mowque]

this is crazy...but how about a map?!?

 

[StarWorms]

Why didn't i go to Spain when i was 13? Or Vatican City when i was 12?

You'd trust catholic priests with a 12 year old boy?

And the age of consent in Northern Ireland is 16, not 17.

 

[gangleri2001]

The Catalan Empire if I was the emperor

 

[Bill3000]

The Catalan Empire if I was the emperor

Why the hell arn't you claiming the entire Crown of Aragon? You didn't even claim Valencia which speaks the same farkin' language as you! And none of the new world?

 

[Rossiya]

Well done for taking Albania though. Everybody knows how rich and fertile that country is.