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If Great Britain is a tiny island I’d love to hear what regular-sized islands you’d recommend.
by dullcrisp 2y ago
If Great Britain is a tiny island I’d love to hear what regular-sized islands you’d recommend.
- ern 2y agoThe "tiny island" schtick is part of the British mythos, I believe.
- graemep 2y agoYes, very much so. So is "overcrowded. I am British - Sri Lankan (dual nationality, have lived in both countries) and find it weird - Sri Lanka is smaller and has a higher population density (population a little less than Australia). I think part of it is that most of the population lives a few high density areas so it feels crowded. Another part is the tendency to compare to the US (which is culturally dominant in the English speaking world), rather than say The Netherlands or Honshu.
- fragmede 2y agoLooking for something more in a Madagascar, Baffin, or Sumatra size. kthx
- gumby 2y agoIt’s a common turn of phrase which I’ve always taken to mean “limited in its expansion due to being an island”, said island being small in comparison to other powers, notably France, Spain, Austria, Prussia, and later Germany and Russia