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 More options Nov 13 2005, 7:12 pm
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From: Sylvain <s...@att.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:12:23 -0800
Local: Sun, Nov 13 2005 7:12 pm
Subject: Re: Riots?
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Surendra Singhi wrote:
>>Turkey is not in Europe, at least not more than Spain is in Africa.
> You cannot change geography.

Indeed,  and the geographic definition of Europe says that it
ends at the Bosphorus,  at least that's what I did learn
in school (ok,  you can argue that Turkey has some bits west
of the Bosphorus where it borders Bulgaria and Greece).
Now,  the political definition is a different matter entirely,
and it can be changed at will.

By the way,  something I noticed when I moved to USA,  is that
the definition of Europe is quite different over here;  I mean,
when I was in school in Europe what we did learn about geography
ended pretty much at the Iron Curtain;  I mean we never really
learned much about what was on the other side (even if historically,
or culturally we might have had more in common than with the folks
westward);  so it is always a bit of a surprise when I hear the
locals here (USA) refer to countries of the ex- Eastern block
as being in Europe (even though they are technically correct);

ain't usenet neat? how did we get from Lisp to geopolitical
discussions? :-)

--Sylvain


 
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