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To be fair, that homogenous white European culture, with about 50 countries, 23 official languages in EU, 225 indigenous languages in whole of Europe, and every

by pacala 11y ago

To be fair, that homogenous white European culture, with about 50 countries, 23 official languages in EU, 225 indigenous languages in whole of Europe, and every valley with its own, sometimes quite distinct, dialect and traditions. Here are some European dialect maps: http://i.imgur.com/9btMHIT.png http://i.imgur.com/9btMHIT.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Continental_West_Germanic_languages.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Continen... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene_dialects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene_dialects https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Polska-dialekty_wg_Urba%C5%84czyka.PNG https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Polska-d... etc/und so weiter/and so on/et ainsi de suite/...

pc86 11y ago
I get your point but I do think that "European culture" (that sounds strange to my American ears as I typically think of the individual nations, not Europe as a whole) is more homogeneous than Asian culture. Not that it is homogeneous, just closer on the spectrum.
- scarmig 11y ago
  Isn't it strange though that we agglomerate all of Asia into one, when it has two constituent parts that are larger than all of Europe combined, and with another billion or two spread out among a bunch of other smaller countries (the 8th most populous of which being larger than the most populous country in Europe)? Hell, if Germany was a province of China, it'd barely crack the top five in population. Spain wouldn't even crack the top 10. West Bengal in India would be the largest country in Europe, and it's only the fourth largest state. UP is twice its size.
  - autoreleasepool 11y ago
    > Hell, if Germany was a province of China, it'd barely crack the top five in population Wow. This completely blew my mind. It's incredibly ignorant how we (Americans) lump the provinces, languages, cultures, and 55 ethnicities[0] of China into Chinese people, and then lump Chinese people into Asians. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minorities_in_China https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minorities_in_China

by pacala 11y ago

pc86 11y ago

I get your point but I do think that "European culture" (that sounds strange to my American ears as I typically think of the individual nations, not Europe as a whole) is more homogeneous than Asian culture. Not that it is homogeneous, just closer on the spectrum.

scarmig 11y ago
Isn't it strange though that we agglomerate all of Asia into one, when it has two constituent parts that are larger than all of Europe combined, and with another billion or two spread out among a bunch of other smaller countries (the 8th most populous of which being larger than the most populous country in Europe)? Hell, if Germany was a province of China, it'd barely crack the top five in population. Spain wouldn't even crack the top 10. West Bengal in India would be the largest country in Europe, and it's only the fourth largest state. UP is twice its size.
- autoreleasepool 11y ago
  > Hell, if Germany was a province of China, it'd barely crack the top five in population Wow. This completely blew my mind. It's incredibly ignorant how we (Americans) lump the provinces, languages, cultures, and 55 ethnicities[0] of China into Chinese people, and then lump Chinese people into Asians. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minorities_in_China https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minorities_in_China