Message from @rogalik

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2018-05-18 17:00:39 UTC  

>everything past the Oder is OStblock land

2018-05-18 17:01:33 UTC  

tbh I don't think anyone would be saying that if there wasn't a period of russian domination of the region

2018-05-18 17:01:43 UTC  

like from purely cultural point of view

2018-05-18 17:01:52 UTC  

yea maybe

2018-05-18 17:01:52 UTC  

🤷

2018-05-18 17:02:04 UTC  

like google Prague's historical centre and Moscow's

2018-05-18 17:02:26 UTC  

too much of a difference not to recognise it 🤷

2018-05-18 17:02:41 UTC  

also Italy and spain are southern europ imo

2018-05-18 17:02:49 UTC  

while french is west

2018-05-18 17:02:51 UTC  

I know they are butthurt about that

2018-05-18 17:02:58 UTC  

but I see them as southern too

2018-05-18 17:03:12 UTC  

I mean nothing really deregatory about that ffs it's geography 🤷

2018-05-18 17:04:05 UTC  

yeah France is quentessientially Western

2018-05-18 17:05:00 UTC  

honestly I may even consider netherlands as central

2018-05-18 17:05:30 UTC  

belgium would make a nice border country for the west/central distinction

2018-05-18 17:05:35 UTC  

but about the Central thing, it's complicated imo, I really don't like grouping western slavs with eastern slavs because of western christianity vs eastern chritianity, it's too sharp of a difference too me

2018-05-18 17:06:06 UTC  

but again

2018-05-18 17:06:13 UTC  

grouping Poland with Switzerland as Central?

2018-05-18 17:06:20 UTC  

we don't really have much in common

2018-05-18 17:06:20 UTC  

never

2018-05-18 17:06:28 UTC  

same with the Netherlands

2018-05-18 17:06:31 UTC  

hmmm

2018-05-18 17:06:37 UTC  

only Gdansk has some Dutch influences kek

2018-05-18 17:06:43 UTC  

but it doesnt matter

2018-05-18 17:07:10 UTC  

you could argue Poland and Czech has something in common with Germany even though its Slavs and Germanics

2018-05-18 17:07:23 UTC  

and with Austria perhaps

2018-05-18 17:07:31 UTC  

but surely not with Switzerland and what do you do with that 🤷

2018-05-18 17:08:15 UTC  

what about lichtenstein and luxenburg

2018-05-18 17:08:35 UTC  

Im ean what are those culturally

2018-05-18 17:10:13 UTC  

also estonia prolly has the coolest non-nordic flag

2018-05-18 17:10:42 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/427861399008575499/447083626010640384/eu_regions.png

2018-05-18 17:10:55 UTC  

liechtenstein and luxembourg are totally western for me 🤷

2018-05-18 17:11:21 UTC  

uhh actually Estonia might be blue as well

2018-05-18 17:11:34 UTC  

I was wondering about that too

2018-05-18 17:11:43 UTC  

but surely not Lithuania

2018-05-18 17:11:50 UTC  

I'm not sure about Latvia

2018-05-18 17:12:03 UTC  

Estonia has extensive ties with the Nordics

2018-05-18 17:12:09 UTC  

but Lithuania is tied with Poland tbh

2018-05-18 17:12:24 UTC  

but again they're always grouped together as "Baltics"

2018-05-18 17:12:41 UTC  

and kind of rightly but I eel it's too small of a group to include as a separate in such classification

2018-05-18 17:12:45 UTC  

yea and the baltics are east