Besides how racist this is, Taiwan didn’t even have Presidential candidates til ‘96, so much for Democracy
Lol none of the listed countries “chose” to copy anything. Syngman Rhee and his successors massacred hundreds of thousands. They killed all opposition.
This is average neoliberal logic, if all the opposition is dead then is there anyone “opposing” the choice to adopt capitalism?
Muh GDP!
Baltics think they are allowed in the westoid club
Estonia can into Nordic!
Apparently this is causing Estonian nationalists severe butthurt. Back when I still was dumb enough to frequent r/Europe, there’d always be some screeching git going on and on about how “Estonia is not Baltic! We are NORDIC! LOOK AT THE MAP! WE ARE NOT BAAALTIIIC!”. It was weird and funny.
Oh and poles always insisted on being “central Europe”, instead of “eastern Europe”.
As a pole, I confirm the ‘centering’ of poland. Also, it becomes U$ military base now. But decades ago, while there was Polish People’s Republic here, cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, a highly influential person in this theocratic country, frequently tried to underline how Poland should be considered as belonging to “western civilization”. I think that dependency of Poland on these Vatican parasites and religion in general is the main reason why Poland is now a conservative, removed, reactionary country with mentality on the level of the dark ages.
The geographical centre of Europe is in Belarus, which is never called “central Europe” lol
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Europe isn’t even a subcontinent.
Huh? That’s not how geography works. Granted it is subjective and the division between continents is often surface level, but that’s not how it works if you’re going to claim that Europe is not even a subcontinent.
It’s all arbitrary. Personally, this is how I see it: India is widely considered a subcontinent, and has an ancient and diverse cultural impact just like Europe as well as three times the population. Further, it is even on its own tectonic plate. Meanwhile, Europe has all those things except the tectonic part, yet is considered a whole continent? It’s clearly Western bias. So if I see someone saying glory to Europe, the greatest continent ever, then of course I’m going to attack the ridiculous notion that Europe has a unique right to being called a continent unlike India or Arabia.
Moreover, in the Mercator map, Europe is too big comparing to Africa than it is in reality. Maybe this is no intentional, and simply geometrical, but I am sure that westoids likes it that way.
It is unintentional since the Mercator map is designed for accurate sea navigation, and its very easy to reproduce and print on a flat paper map, so the size of the continents is just due to mathematics. However there is definitely an anglo-centric influence as to why the map is propagated to the degree it is.
Behold, Nipponcentrism
Also if you want to have a Mercator map that doesn’t split any continents in half, I think centering it close to the Atlantic or the Pacific are the only ways to go.
I definitely agree that there is an “anti-oriental” bias as to why Europe is considered a continent, but at the same time it does make sense to have a distinction between the continents. Basing continents simply off of tectonics plates gets rough very quick, as Asia itself is divided into several plates (especially in Siberia, Eastern China, and Southeast Asia) and a large part of Siberia is itself located on the North American plate.
Plus there is a very decent natural “land border” in the form of the Urals and Western Steppes, both of which are very very lightly populated where the European border is drawn.
All good points, but I choose to be an opportunistic hater in this instance. 😈
right? Like lmao sit down and chill the fuck out you’re a pinensula you dweebs
Only valid countries are few in Eastern Europe and Ireland
Ireland is just an aircraft carrier and tax haven for America.
I’ve seen this account on my timeline a handful of times (from comrades quote tweeting them) and I always have to hold myself back from saying “Estonia is one of the most reactionary states, maybe be a bit wary when receiving “information” from this account.”
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