madviking
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Central Europe isn't A Thing.
Where is Poland?
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TheLastOne36
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Poland is Central European culturally, and I think that is all that really matters or is relevant to this discussion.
TheLastOne36
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Ahh well this has potential to spark an interesting discussion.
How is it not a thing? Why are Western and Eastern Europe things then? Because of some political boundary from over 20 years ago? How about before the Iron Curtain? Because before the Iron Curtain, Central Europe was definitely a thing.
salty mud
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I think he was referring to another user's tendencies to refuse to classify things as "a thing."
Zack
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Because there are obvious negative connotations associated with being in eastern Europe?
Show me a map showing how you divide up Europe into separate geographic regions. How many geographic divisors are there? Northern, Western, Southern, Eastern, Central... people always say "of course Poland is in Central Europe!" but never give any examples of other countries in Central Europe, why Poland is ostensibly considered part of Central Europe, or how they divide up Europe into geographic regions in general.
madviking
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Quite simple really. Romantic/Germanic languages constitute Western Europe. Slavic languages constitute Eastern Europe. Polish is Slavic. Hence, it can only make sense that Poland is culturally eastern European.
sophie
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What about Czech and Magyar?
TheLastOne36
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Central Europe is very easy to define. It constitutes the modern states of Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and a case can be made for Slovenia.
If you extend the definition to include German states, Germany and Austria as well.
No serious anthropologist or historian groups entire nations and cultures based on purely language.
Western Slavic European nations have had a tremendously different history from Eastern or Southern Slavic European nations.
In the case of Poland, this different history originates from the very founding of the first Polish state, when Mieszko converted to Catholicism in 960AD. Since then, Poland (and other Catholic Slavic Central European cultures such as the Czechs and Slovaks) has been part of the Western Latin sphere of influence throughout it's entire history, up to the end of the second world war.
Same goes for Hungary, though they have a slightly different history.
Zack
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How would you define the rest of Europe?
sophie
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Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
In DoC I see it in North Africa, Central Asia and Yemen fairly often.
TheLastOne36
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Was hoping it wouldn't come across like that.
I just didn't want to write out Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Silesia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Slovenia, Montenegro, Sorbia, Bosnia, and any others I've missed in full.
azzaman333
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Because they are so desperately embarrassed of potentially being associated with anything Russian that they deny the facts of their location.
AdamCrock
Polish Pirate
Being a Pole I can only say (with 100% accuracy) that Poland is on British Isles (though we have a significant colony in Chicago - U.S) 
edit : trying to colonize China now but significant eye differency makes it difficult)
edit 2 : Yes we make perfect spies (with accent and everything) but have problems with China and Japan - different eyes
edit : trying to colonize China now but significant eye differency makes it difficult)
edit 2 : Yes we make perfect spies (with accent and everything) but have problems with China and Japan - different eyes
This is so true.
Zack
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Still waiting...
AdamCrock
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I bet my grandma's supply of X-mas pie that frakin'ing every street in the Poles district is named after Pulaski or Copernicus ! hahaha
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