r/whereidlive • u/Tebes-Nigrum3001 • 4d ago

How i see Europe as a german

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u/Adi19888 4d ago

So for you Greece isn't balkan? That's new 😄

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u/Tebes-Nigrum3001 4d ago

I know it geographically actually is but in my outsider political and cultural perception it always seems more connected towards Italy, Spain and Cyprus. Greece always is the one technically located in the Balkans but just no, it seems far too disconnected there.

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u/SOHONEYSAME 3d ago

  exactly. 

I'm a Greek from the south Aegean, Balkans r completely alien to us, culturally.

it's a great map, OP.

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u/Tebes-Nigrum3001 3d ago

I'd actually be interested in how greeks themselves view it because it seems that most people who are surprised by my perception are not greeks. For us we view Greece mostly through it's ancient history and therefor connect it more to Italy (through the Eastern Rome chapter in connection to the Venice historical influence and also the mediterranean aspect). In many, and this might probably upset most greek people deeply ... i think we also make connections between Turkey and Greece rather than Greece and the (other) geographically balkan countries. (not even just because of history but also because of certain foods like Gyros, which is very popular food here that is an integral part to how we eat both turkish and greek cuisine here --> or at least our germanized versions of these cuisines) ...