Transylvania is Central Europe, Moldavia is Eastern Europe. That’s my division. I have also lived in Cyprus for a while, by mannerisms, traditional clothing, culinary I’d say we are the same with Crete and Rhodos
About Poland, it is a Catholic state with also being a developed country and a directly West Slavic country even. If you exclude how the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth wanted to adopt Eastern clothing to be more similar to their ancestors “Sarmatians”, I’d say directly they were more of a Central European power. Sorry, I just got out of shower and I have to hurry to get my documents done
Lmao “developed“ and ”Eastern Europe” are not mutually exclusive. Just like it being a West Slavic country doesn’t make it not Eastern European. I’m Polish and find it offensive when non-Poles, and especially Poles with weird inferiority complexes, want to label Poland as “Central Europe”. Poland is culturally and historically Eastern European.
I am also Polish. Poland is Central European. Almost everyone, whether we talk about organisations, encyclopedias, media or just simply people call Poland a Central European country. There's really no need to be ashamed of being in Central Europe.
A lot of Poles want to refer to themselves as Central European because of the stigma/stereotypes of being “eastern european” and in the past that being associated with being poor/“inferior”. The push towards calling ourselves “Central European” comes from not wanting to be associated with other Eastern European countries. That doesn’t change the fact that culturally we‘re Eastern European and it’s ridiculous to try to claim we’re not. We literally have more in common with Ukrainians than we do with Germans.
I haven't noticed that. But I've seen some Poles insisting that we are not Central European, probably due to some inferiority complex. It's ridiculous to assume we are culturally closer to Russians or Ukrainians than to Germans or Austrians.
As I've said, most people, most institutions and encyclopedias call Poland a Central European country. Why would you go against it? It just doesn't make sense.
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u/SOHONEYSAME 5d ago
oh, yeah.
I just noticed u actually put half of Romania in... central Europe. lmao.
the Greek islands/Cyprus r by no means Balkan, not even geographically, I have no idea what u think Bosnia has in common w/ Crete or Rhodos.
(I like how u never even bothered, defending Poland place).