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How to trigger a central-yuropean (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Is central Europe ever even used outside the context of coping about being is eastern Europe?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Central Europe is really a thing, but I only realized it when I went to Poland.

One map I like is this one. Show the differences between central and eastern Europe.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I like this one

Clearly, central Europe is a scam, never let them divide us!

[–] Rastenor 4 points 8 months ago

As a Swede, I fully support kicking Denmark out of Scandinavia 👍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm more in the Slavoj Žižek school of though where everything under the English Channel is the balkans.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r_5Slnkzekc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

As long as there's no central balkans, I'm with you!

Couldn't disagree with Žižek anyway

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, I'm in Estonia and I have been to Poland, it's pretty eastern European round here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Everything that was in soviet sphere after WW2 has eastern European vibes to this day, sadly. Things get better over time, but those 40 years of oppression will be hard to fix completely.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

No.

Posted by the Western Europe Gang

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Are you Chinese or Japanese?

I’m Laotian

The ocean?

I am going off of memory and hopefully not butchering it, but it’s one of my favorite exchanges in American comedy.

[–] grue 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My favorite part is how Cotton Hill, despite being the most racist of them all, immediately correctly recognized him as Laotian because he fought in SE Asia in WWII.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Kahn immediately recognizes this isn't your average, everyday, ignorant redneck racism.

This is advanced racism.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Oh, ok... So are you Chinese or Japanese?

[–] NIB 16 points 8 months ago

Isnt the whole East/West Europe mostly used for cold war designations? Thats why Czechia is in the "East" and Cyprus is the "West". Well not really but kinda.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Northern Europe generally includes the UK, but London is further south than Berlin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Wtf … TIL

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

gosh, geography is weird!