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POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]
Google it. You'll certainly find plenty in this thread.
I've Google it and I'm definitely not suffering from that lol
We also share some with Italians, e.g. Pizza. Nobody. I hope nobody is suggesting that makes Poland part of Southern Europe. The overwhelming bulk of the Polish culinary tradition is Eastern European, part of a continuum stretching from the Polish western border right to Vladivostok.
Yes, we share Pizza with Italians too, as the rest of the world. But the rest of the world doesn't share saurkraut with the Germans ;) Or does it?
We also share religion, alphabet, architecture, art with the West.
Often a relative newcomer has far less political and cultural baggage and cares little about the various inter-Eastern European debates and arguments. In short, objectivity.
As already illustrated by my comment from 17:34 objectivity doesn't look like your strongest point... It's interesting that you think that you have less political and cultural baggage.
What I see is a lot of special pleading
You see it this way, becuase you're not being objective.
by people who earnestly want for whatever reason that Poland isn't in Eastern Europe, despite culture,
Listen, man, the only reason I even write in this thread is because of people like you and berni23. I don't have a special wish of being Central, Eastern or Martian for that matter lol Berni23 even doesn't want to enumerate Eastern European countries but wants Poland to be in Eastern Poland very much - you're not curious why?
despite culture, cuisine
I've already wrote about the culture. And as for cuisine - Polish cuisine is a mix of many cuisines, especially of our neighbours, but not only. For example, goulash isn't Slavic, you know ;) We also eat dishes that are considered Slavic (some claim they aren't because you have dumplings in Italy or Asia too), because we're Slavs lol Noone claims we aren't lol
tradition,
What tradition?
language,
Even the language is West Slavic language not East Slavic. Poles are West Slavs. So, yes, we differ from the East Slavs. Why is it such a problem for you?
history,
Wha...? How history can be Eastern? lol
architecture,
What's Eastern about Polish architecture? ;D
landscape,
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:D
OMG, in Poland even landscape is Eastern... The sky and the Sun probably too :D
economic output
What do you mean?
and geography.
According to geography Poland is Central Europe ;D
Basically a desire to separate Poland from centuries of tradition and from its largest and most dominant neighbour.
What tradition?
And what separates Poland from "its largest and most dominant neighbour" is a bit more then our desire ;) You're making biased assumptions, again.
