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How to trigger a central-yuropean (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by where_am_i to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Is central Europe ever even used outside the context of coping about being is eastern Europe?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Central Europe is really a thing, but I only realized it when I went to Poland.

One map I like is this one. Show the differences between central and eastern Europe.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I like this one

Clearly, central Europe is a scam, never let them divide us!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

As a Swede, I fully support kicking Denmark out of Scandinavia 👍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm more in the Slavoj Žižek school of though where everything under the English Channel is the balkans.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r_5Slnkzekc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

As long as there's no central balkans, I'm with you!

Couldn't disagree with Žižek anyway

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, I'm in Estonia and I have been to Poland, it's pretty eastern European round here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Everything that was in soviet sphere after WW2 has eastern European vibes to this day, sadly. Things get better over time, but those 40 years of oppression will be hard to fix completely.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

No.

Posted by the Western Europe Gang

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Are you Chinese or Japanese?

I’m Laotian

The ocean?

I am going off of memory and hopefully not butchering it, but it’s one of my favorite exchanges in American comedy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My favorite part is how Cotton Hill, despite being the most racist of them all, immediately correctly recognized him as Laotian because he fought in SE Asia in WWII.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Kahn immediately recognizes this isn't your average, everyday, ignorant redneck racism.

This is advanced racism.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Oh, ok... So are you Chinese or Japanese?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So, are you Chinese or Japanese?

[–] where_am_i 2 points 11 months ago

oh my, thank you so much

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Isnt the whole East/West Europe mostly used for cold war designations? Thats why Czechia is in the "East" and Cyprus is the "West". Well not really but kinda.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Northern Europe generally includes the UK, but London is further south than Berlin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Wtf … TIL

[–] where_am_i 3 points 11 months ago

gosh, geography is weird!