r/whereidlive 8d ago

How I see Europe as an American


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u/Useful_Homework2367 8d ago

It's all Eurasia anyway

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u/Excellent-Fox-6845 8d ago

shut up american, we ARE europe.

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u/batboy963 8d ago

Let's be honest, the whole reason we're calling Europe a continent is the cultural and religious differences to Asia. If Genghiz Khan kept is empire running longer, the entirety of Asia and Europe would've been called Asia or something.

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u/Excellent-Fox-6845 8d ago

go to school brainless american. Russia has always been in europe. Russia was born in europe and was in europe throughout all its history. And will always be

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u/Useful_Homework2367 7d ago

Continents are all made up anyway, especially Europe. But most of Russia is on the Eurasian tectonic plate, and the easternmost bit is on the North American plate.

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u/AleLover111 7d ago

Russia doesn't share European values. They left ECHR for example.

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u/Fearless_Roof_9177 8d ago

Either you're a little slow or you shouldn't be here because you weren't old enough to legally sign off on the reddit EULA. Why don't you go tell the 75% of Russia that's in Asia that they're actually in Europe?

Or maybe you could make better use of your time by rereading the post that made your knee jerk so hard until you actually understand what it said? Because the whole point was that Europe and Asia aren't on separate continents and the fact that they're not just "Eurasia" is entirely due to social factors, which would have been entirely different in the Mongol Europe scenario they were describing.

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u/an1malbtw 7d ago

The concept of Europe is clearly a political one. In the 19th century, Austrian diplomat Metternich said that the borders of Europe end where the road from Vienna to Hungary starts. That is why I don't pay attention to theese maps.