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Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Post by guard-of-terra »

sampo wrote: post #247
Strom wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm from Estonia and I had to vote 'Other'. I don't identify myself as an eastern european nor as a scandinavian. I'm from northern europe, as also classified by your linked UN geoscheme. [1] There is no northern europe poll option however. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_geoscheme

I wonder if mostly anyone from "cold war Eastern Europe" countries identify as an Eastern European any more? Estonians and other Baltic states don't, Poland doesn't. Czech Republic probably doesn't. What about Slovenia, or Croatia, or Macedonia? Or Hungary? Also maybe Russians identify as Russians and not Eastern Europeans.

Russians have entry of their own and then are free to vote Eastern Europe too (poll is multi-select).

Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Post by lwinkler »

sjwright wrote: post #226
danmaz74 wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, thanks for the answer. So "Western Europe excl UK" is actually "Western Europe excl UK and Southern Europe" :)

How about this as a proposed breakdown: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmufGoZ--XWedHF...

Please don't put Switzerland in Scandinavia. It is not the same as Sweden.

Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Post by p4bl0 »

danmaz74 wrote: post #252
p4bl0 wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also didn't know. I first voted for "Western Europe". And then I saw the "Southern/Mediterranean Europe" possibility and felt that it fits better so I voted for that one too.

On the other hand, if France isn't "Western Europe", who is? By the way, a maybe simpler, and for sure more objective division could have been between "EU" and "Non-EU Europe"

> On the other hand, if France isn't "Western Europe", who is?

Well, it really depends on where in France. Even culturally (except for the language), people in cities which are in the South of France such as Marseille are much closer to Spanish / Italians / Maghrebians than to other French from Paris on many points.

Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Post by lucasnemeth »

kutakbash wrote: post #35

>Southern North America (eg. Mexico) >Northern part of South America >Souther part of South America Looks needlessly fragmented and imprecise. What is 'Southern part of South America'? Cono Sur? Then Brazilians from Minas Gerais and Porto Alegre are in different groups? Was that the intention? Why 'Southern North America' and not Central America? Where does Caribbean belong? Middle Asia (say, Kazakhstan)? Is Spain We…

Agree. Southern part of South America is very confusing, how south is southern? Is São Paulo south enough? Should I live in Patagonia to mark that?

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Post by a-priori »

talloaktrees wrote: post #120

Not that I really care, but you have no category that fits Taiwan. It is not really China and not Southeast Asia

One thing that Taiwan (i.e, the Republic of China) and China (i.e, the People's Republic of China) can agree on is that the island of Taiwan is part of China.

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Post by erid »

Systemic33 wrote: post #39
kutakbash wrote: post #35

>Southern North America (eg. Mexico) >Northern part of South America >Souther part of South America Looks needlessly fragmented and imprecise. What is 'Southern part of South America'? Cono Sur? Then Brazilians from Minas Gerais and Porto Alegre are in different groups? Was that the intention? Why 'Southern North America' and not Central America? Where does Caribbean belong? Middle Asia (say, Kazakhstan)? Is Spain We…

I wasn't aware of that scheme, I'll remember it for another time, it would pollute the data too much to change it all now.

So, where would Costa Rica belong, I'm confused.
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