Georgians and Armenians tend to identify more with Europe than Asia. They're right on the "boundary", as much as there is one, but most that I've spoken to are adamant that Georgia and Armenia are European. ( Of course, that doesn't change the actual premise of the meme)
I mean... I'm turkish and I don't fully agree or identify turkey itself as 100% european. No, not because of "ThE eUrOpEaN pArT oF iStAnBuL", but because of the way our country and citizens behave. Countries further east have no hope.
Also, because of a theme I've mentioned several times : they're claiming to be european for clout. If you're trying to put yourself in the better clout group, and it's doubtable, you should be trying to make the other group's clout better instead of trying to jam yourself in where you are not fully represented.
EDIT : It's not if Armenians, Georgians , or for that matter Turks , think they are european, it's what the racists in europe consider european. Are the listed countries thought of as european to the same degree as norway, france or switzerland, undoubtably european countries?
Under the leadership of Pol Pot, who was an ardent Marxist atheist,[163] the Khmer Rouge enforced a policy of state atheism. According to Catherine Wessinger, “Democratic Kampuchea was officially an atheist state, and the persecution of religion by the Khmer Rouge was only matched in severity by the persecution of religion in the communist states of Albania (see Religion in communist Albania) and North Korea (see Freedom of religion in North Korea).”[164] All religions were banned, and the repression of adherents of Islam,[165] Christianity,[166] and Buddhism was extensive. It is estimated that up to 50,000 Buddhist monks were massacred by the Khmer Rouge
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Georgians and Armenians tend to identify more with Europe than Asia. They're right on the "boundary", as much as there is one, but most that I've spoken to are adamant that Georgia and Armenia are European. ( Of course, that doesn't change the actual premise of the meme)
good luck to them.
If Turkey got considered, why not them, right?
I mean... I'm turkish and I don't fully agree or identify turkey itself as 100% european. No, not because of "ThE eUrOpEaN pArT oF iStAnBuL", but because of the way our country and citizens behave. Countries further east have no hope.
Also, because of a theme I've mentioned several times : they're claiming to be european for clout. If you're trying to put yourself in the better clout group, and it's doubtable, you should be trying to make the other group's clout better instead of trying to jam yourself in where you are not fully represented.
EDIT : It's not if Armenians, Georgians , or for that matter Turks , think they are european, it's what the racists in europe consider european. Are the listed countries thought of as european to the same degree as norway, france or switzerland, undoubtably european countries?
"this religion started by a dude from Nazareth is totally western!"
Are you trying to imply that Jesus wasn't blond and had blue eyes?
that's right, he had Epicanthic folds because he was from east asia, just look at any pictures of Korean Jesus.
By any reasonable measure, the "Wester Civilization" started on either Iran or Iraq.
Culturally, anything west from India has to be "Western".
Since the difference between east and west can be defined by the IERS reference meridian, most of christianity developed in the east.
It is a cult
ow the edge. Praise Dawkins and Saint Hitchens
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cult
Yeah, coercive and dangerous. We're on the same page. Let me be an edgelord too. Why should you have all the fun?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide#Religious_groups
Don't forget that religious people are stupid though
And yes, I mean all of them
Ow the edge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre
Nice apologism
I didn't say unintelligent
Belief in the supernatural, no matter what form it takes, be it tarot cards, Christianity, reading tea-leaves, Buddhism etc.
They're all stupid beliefs
Nice goalpost moving.
So you think believing one stupid thing means you're stupid? Because that's stupid. And if I paradoxically follow your logic, that make you stupid.