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“It's a pointless effort to box the whole Europe into one stereotype, it's too diverse for that. “From my POV, the school social structure in USA seems very […
by pcl 4y ago
“It's a pointless effort to box the whole Europe into one stereotype, it's too diverse for that.
“From my POV, the school social structure in USA seems very […]”
I agree that it’s harder to generalize over all of Europe.
FYI, the US and Europe are roughly the same population and size (ignoring, as ever, poor Alaska) — ~350 million vs ~500 million, and ~8 million square miles vs ~5 million square miles.
While the US is considerably more culturally homogeneous than Europe, it is also quite hard to generalize across the United States.
- The_Colonel 4y agoEurope is actually 750 million. EU != Europe (EU had ~500 million before brexit)
- pcl 4y agoYes, and if you include the Russian bits the size comparison changes considerably. In my experience, when non-Europeans say “Europe” they mean something like “the union of the EU and the EEA and the UK”. They probably exclude Russia and a few of the Russian-adjacent states, and if they think of Iceland, they include the part on the North American plate as well as the Eurasian plate.
- mantas 4y agoMore like France + Germany and maybe UK.