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This is hopeless )) East == bad Central == better Therefore Central Europe always extends far enough to encompass the speakers' country. Similar thing happen
by def_true_false 5y ago
This is hopeless ))
East == bad
Central == better
Therefore Central Europe always extends far enough to encompass the speakers' country. Similar thing happens with Europe and countries beyond the Black Sea.
- jhgb 5y agoActually, no. This would mean that there would be a dozen different accepted boundaries, which is simply not true. Instead, the eastern boundary of Catholicism/Western Church, the eastern boundary of Latin script, the eastern boundary of Germanized cultures etc. etc. etc. basically coincide.
- def_true_false 5y agoBut they don't really coincide... Seeing as Germany itself has a Protestant-Catholic split, nevermind the rest of Central Europe, Catholicism is probably not it. Neither Latin script, nor the extent of the historical German population, unless you consider the Baltics Central Europe. It seems there is indeed more than one way to look at it. For some, it is about not being in the same category with Russia, for some it's their Austro-Hungarian history. For some it's Germanic languages. Is the German North Sea coast any more Central than, say, Belgium? How about Slovenia? Is Südtirol Central Europe? Where exactly the line is tends to depend on the context. In my experience, people from the region don't care much about the Iron Curtain line, unlike Anglos or the French.