Turkey in the EU?
- Thread starter milefile
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- USA! USA!
They've invaded Europe? Which part?
Damn Turkish!
Damn Turkish!
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- GTP_MattyIce
- Matthnt
Yeah vat_man it is, only the little part of the country that has Istanbul on it is in Europe. But I dont see the need for Europe and Asia to be separate continents, Eurasia is quite big, I like that better as 1 single solid name and mass than separating it into Europe and Asia.
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- Alabamamania
Actually, isn't the naming of continents rather outdated?
it's not as if there are vast tracts of land between the known regions of Europe and Asia, or unknown lands sandwiched beween North and South America.
I dunno, working in a educational supply company has made me realized how uselss the memorization of continents is when kids around here can barely remember the states of the union.
I'm not promoting ignorance here; I'd like know that when I'm speaking of Spain, or Cambodia, or Sudan, that someone else has an idea where it is on a map. But when I noticed that we have 5 different world maps that all seem to divide the world into continents with vastly differing borders, it all seems useless to use continent names. We're not entering the planet from other worlds on a regular basis...
it's not as if there are vast tracts of land between the known regions of Europe and Asia, or unknown lands sandwiched beween North and South America.
I dunno, working in a educational supply company has made me realized how uselss the memorization of continents is when kids around here can barely remember the states of the union.
I'm not promoting ignorance here; I'd like know that when I'm speaking of Spain, or Cambodia, or Sudan, that someone else has an idea where it is on a map. But when I noticed that we have 5 different world maps that all seem to divide the world into continents with vastly differing borders, it all seems useless to use continent names. We're not entering the planet from other worlds on a regular basis...
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Off topic but...
I was thinking about this the other day in the context of a piece I heard about making North America like the EU, which it practically already is, even though there are only two countries in North America. Then it would logically follow that the entire hemisphere could become a unit with the same currency, etc.
If the trend were to continue, though, we might end up with an Orwellian world comprised of Eurasia and Oceana, split hemispherically.
Asia and Europe have always been a problem. Africa, South America, Australia and Antarctica are discrete landmasses and it makes more sense to name them as continents. But Seperating Europe and Asia is a conceptual (political) trick.
Now it doesn't seem so off topic.
The Current EU isn't big on having Turkey join. I think a big part of it would be because it borders Iraq. And that's probably also why America supports it. It would make it a lot easier to drag the EU into a war. They might want Turkey as a buffer zone.
But back to the continents. If we want to teach the continents we ought to teach it in the context of plate techtonics and not arbitrary borders.
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I say keep them out, they have nothing to add to the European society. They want to join because of the great advantages, the huge agricultural funding etc. And this whilst they refuse to tackle their greatest problems such as poverty, bad education and awfully organized politics. The turkish economy is in a true downfall plus they don't have their human rights laws in order.
mayorbill11
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mmm... turkey.
