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--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 06 Aug 2018, 14:19 ---We Austrians ...
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Hättest ja auch was sagen können ... :laugh: ('Terminator country')
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 06 Aug 2018, 14:19 ---I do understand, especially towards northern europe, Austria might be considered part of the Balkan region.
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Dunno about the Scandinavians, but I think that historically and culturally, it's more important having been a part of the Holy Roman Empire? That one lasted quite a while - much longer than everything that came after the breakup.
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 06 Aug 2018, 14:19 ---We Austrians often see our country as the "gate to the east", so it's basically central europe.
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Hmmh - I've heard the theory that Austria's neutrality during the cold war played a big role in the divergent evolution of self-images of (the) German(ies) on the one hand and Austria on the other. Adenauer's 'Westbinding' firmly tied the FRG into the concept of 'The West', and the people in the GDR weren't cut off from the eastern part of central Europe like we were - while Austria was free to be ... Austria. I've only realized that we're actually central-, rather than western Europeans when the CEE countries started to join NATO and the EU.
'Gate to the East' - wouldn't 'Gate to Southern and Southeastern Europe' also be true?
dutchrvl:
Nowadays I never know what to answer anymore....
Originally:
Northwestern Europe
Netherlands
Gelderland
Now:
North America
USA
Boston by way of 10 years Chicago
With 2 years Asia, Japan, Honshu, Osaka/Tokyo
JotaTuberPY:
Asunción
Paraguay
South America :claireface:
oddtail:
What do you know, I don't think I ever ended up writing a post here... so.
Warsaw, Poland.
nathanielballard:
I live in the New Forest in England.
We call it the *New* Forest because it was only designated as such in 1072 :)
We have ponies
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