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[Tee Kay]

 

[The Last Conformist]

I have a very simple solution to the whole Eastern Europe debate:

 

[TheLastOne36]

I have a very simple solution to the whole Eastern Europe debate:

Either all of europe has to be part of asia or none of it can be, mainly because of the fact there is no natural border to seperate the two continents between Germany, Poland, Czech, Austria, Slovenia and Italy.

 

[Séamas]

Remove Greece from Asia, and then we can all accept this.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Ok, i just finished putting every single person who made a stupid comment involving EE and Poland in this thread to my ignore list.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Either all of europe has to be part of asia or none of it can be, mainly because of the fact there is no natural border to seperate the two continents between Germany, Poland, Czech, Austria, Slovenia and Italy.

Europe never had a natural eastern border before, why should it suddenly need one now?

 

[TheLastOne36]

Europe never had a natural eastern border before, why should it suddenly need one now?

Ahem, Ural mountains, Caucasus, Caspian sea, Black Sea, Eastern Mediteranean...

 

[holy king]

Ahem, Ural mountains, Caucasus, Caspian sea, Black Sea, Eastern Mediteranean...

so it's the eastern mediterranean that forms a natural border between cyprus and asia?

 

[The Last Conformist]

Ahem, Ural mountains, Caucasus, Caspian sea, Black Sea, Eastern Mediteranean...

The Urals are no more a natural continental boundary than the Harz. The rest constitute a southern/southeastern boundary, not a eastern one.

 

[TheLastOne36]

so it's the eastern mediterranean that forms a natural border between cyprus and asia?

Cyprus is an island so it's no use in argueing it. Besides it has a european culture and that's what's important imo. That is why i consider Armenia Georgia, Cyprus, Cape Verde Greenland etc. European.

 

[Tee Kay]

Let's just call the whole damn thing Eurasia and problem solved. It's geographically one continent anyways.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Agreed.

But we are in the Central part of the European penninsula of Eurasia.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

Yep. Go Jared Diamond !

 

[The Last Conformist]

. Besides it has a european culture and that's what's important imo.

I guess Perm has a much more Eureopean culture than Yekaterinburg?

 

[Huayna Capac357]

Huh? Aren't they both in Russia?

 

[Tee Kay]

I guess he's just being sarcastic.

 

[TheLastOne36]

The permian age:

 

[dosed150]

Agreed.

But we are in the Central part of the European penninsula of Eurasia.

well if we're just going with eurasia you could probably call poland western

 

[Mirc]

How can you be "closer" to Western Europe when it is pretty clear that geographically you are in the Eastern part? It's not our fault you look down on those farther to the east than you.

Are you kidding me?? Just how much geography do you know? Did they teach you Europe ends at the Black Sea?

FYI, a north-south line through the very center in Europe goes through Belarus. Which OBVIOUSLY, is further east than Poland (and Romania, for that matter). Thus Poland is COMPLETELY in the western half of Europe, if you do not consider a "central" part. If you consider a central part, it's in the west of that Central part too.

Geography is THE BIGGEST reason to call Poland "Central European". If you don't want a central European region, you call it Western European.

 

[Steph]

Yeah! The French are the most advanced Europeans