Re: Humorous Mistake on Goethe Institute Poster

* Paul J Kriha wrote:

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Paul J Kriha <paul.nospam.kriha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Which two of them are from Eastern Europe?

I am confused. Is this a joke of some kind? :-)
From your email address and your name I assume that you
are a European, yet you pretend not to know which countries
are traditionally regarded as part of Western Europe,
Northern Europe, Central Europe, Southern Europe, and
Eastern Europe.

I don't think I was taught that at school (in the 70s). And it's not
only Central Europe that didn't exist as a concept at that time; I would

The concept existed in literature, especially geographically orientated
literature, since medieval times. You may not have been aware of
it or have heard it in your school but you cannot say it didn't exist.

Sorry, I was expressing myself very sloppily. It was a time when the
concept virtually didn't exist in daily life. On top of that, I had a
bad geography teacher when these things were due.

also hesitate where to put Portugal or Bulgaria, when SW and SE aren't
options.

Perhaps Portugese and Bulgarian natives might have some
reasoned opinion about it. :-)

Sure, I'd like to hear that.

I'd also say that when one talks about geographical locations
in Europe one shouldn't let the terminology get polluted with
political terms especially not the ones from the Cold War or Nazi eras.

Dismissing the ideas that were common at that time is as ahistorical as
forgetting what was usual before that.

This seems to be a very emotional matter to people from Poland, Czechia,
Hungary. While I have no objections to you constituting Central Europe
with us Germans, why, on the other hand, is so objectionable for you to
be put into Eastern Europe _in another, coarser system_? As if there
were exactly one "correct" subdivision of Europe. I sense a latent
racism there.
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