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It’s somehow funny to hear a British company being described as ‘in Europe’, but I suppose you’re technically correct…
by xanderlewis 2y ago
It’s somehow funny to hear a British company being described as ‘in Europe’, but I suppose you’re technically correct…
- simonw 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O2_(brand) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O2_(brand) - "O2 (typeset as O2) is a global brand name owned by the Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica"
- xanderlewis 2y agoIt’s a British brand, even if it’s now owned by someone else. It even says so on the page you link to.
- plufz 2y agoTechnically…? Does anyone here believe that the EU and Europe is the same thing? Would you find it weird if someone said that a Norwegian company was in Europe?
- xanderlewis 2y agoMany people certainly seem to! And it annoys me. I wasn’t talking about the EU, though. I was just commenting on the fact that in the UK, ‘Europe’ generally means ‘continental Europe’. > Would you find it weird if someone said that a Norwegian company was in Europe? I’d find it weird if a European did. But from Americans it’s to be expected.
- RandomThoughts3 2y ago[flagged]
- dgfitz 2y agoNo no no you missed it, clearly Americans are just stupid.
- Philpax 2y agoI'd suggest you level up your reading comprehension before suggesting the parent poster was in any way offended or in need of therapy.
- RandomThoughts3 2y agoParent is suggesting it would be weird for Europeans to call the UK as in Europe which as a European I can tell you is preposterous. That’s the kind of non sense you used to hear from Brexiter. They will have no sympathy from me.
- xanderlewis 2y agoYeah… I’m a bit surprised.
- User23 2y agoIf Norway isn’t in Europe where is it? Asia?
- eru 2y agoWell, Europe is a subcontinent of Asia. A bit like India or Arabia.
- 3836293648 2y agoNo? Europe is a subcontinent of Eurasia, as is Asia. Probably not the naming scheme in all languages, but this is English
- xanderlewis 2y agoI didn’t say Norway isn’t in Europe. Read my comment carefully.
- thrwthsnw 2y agoWhich Americans, North or South?
- xanderlewis 2y agoAs far as I know, Americans refer to themselves as Americans and South Americans do not.
- boomskats 2y ago> I was just commenting on the fact that in the UK, ‘Europe’ generally means ‘continental Europe’. It really depends on who you're speaking to.
- School-Cotton 2y agoAnd on the context
- maeil 2y ago> Would you find it weird if someone said that a Norwegian company was in Europe? > I’d find it weird if a European did. But from Americans it’s to be expected. Absolutely nothing weird about it, I'd find it very weird if they wouldn't. I'm from Europe and my social circle has people from all over Europe. It's really just the UK which has this weird usage of Europe.
- SahAssar 2y agoThe UK is part of Europe. It's technically, geographically, politically, historically, lingustially, tectonically and socially correct. In what ways is it not?
- School-Cotton 2y agoAre Cuba or Haiti part of North America? A lot of British people feel like their civilization is meaningfully distinct from “Europe”, even though they’re part of it in a technical geographical sense.
- SahAssar 2y ago> Are Cuba or Haiti part of North America In general yes, but it depends on if you consider central america as its own continent and if you include them there and how you delineate north/south america. Groupings differ based on your education. I think the thing that makes the UK different is that there is no other option besides them being a separate thing/continent. Are you suggesting that the UK is it's own continent? Would that be with the faroese and the Greenlanders? The UK might feel different, but they are not separate. The french feel different from the bulgarians, but that does not mean they are on a separate continent, politically or geographically. EDIT: > A lot of British people feel like their civilization is meaningfully distinct This is, to borrow a word, "balderdash". Looking at the influence vikings, romans and normans have had that is a rubbish argument. Just like other countries in europe the british culture is built on the stones of other cultures, and just like many other countries they subsumed other cultures because of kings or other political dominance.
- School-Cotton 2y agoContinents are not objective reality, they are semi-arbitrary groupings vaguely correlated with geography, culture, etc. If British people don’t feel like they’re part of “the Continent”, there’s little objective reason to say they are.
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- blinding-streak 2y agoEurope != EU
- maeil 2y agoThe only people who find this funny are the British themselves, the other 99% of the world thinks nothing strange of it.
- lobochrome 2y agoWell - it’s Spanish now no? Telefonica bought them.