🇪🇺 Europe | Why Europeans Think Asia is Poor and Backwards

[PeterB]

@afterspivak

The Swedes are an interesting case. As an ally of the Dutch they were involved in the colonization of what is now Tainan. Does this mean I can get residency in Sweden?

This is weak. All of Europe and sizable part of Middle East should get free Swedish passports.
Or is there a statue of limitations?

[Taiwan_Luthiers]

Or just do away with using citizenship to decide if you can reside somewhere. I have no issue with basing benefits on citizenship but right of movement shouldn’t be based on citizenship.

[afterspivak]

So . . . you are now supporting redress for a history of looting and pillaging?

Glad to see we are now on the same page!

Guy

[chabuduo]

@OysterOmelet

Now that I’ve been going to Europe virtually every year, I see why. They only go to Thailand, and they have no interest in the Far East.

And you talked to virtually all 400 million of them of course What a dumb thread

[yanganlun]

@PeterB

This is weak. All of Europe and sizable part of Middle East should get free Swedish passports.
Or is there a statue of limitations?

There is a region on Swedish East coast called Roslagen. The name comes from the “rodslag”, which is a word for a rowing crew of warrior oarsmen. That is why the Finnish name for Sweden is “Ruotsi” The same rodslag, also known as varangians, rowed their boats on Dniepro river trade route with Constantinople. One of them, named Rurik, founded a state with a capital
in Kiev called Kievan Rus (literally Kiev “oarsmen”), which further mutated into the bloody country of Russia So basically, Finns call Swedes “Russians”, Russia is invading another country with a capital Kiev, and both Swedes and Finns are hastily joining NATO

[the_bear]

I don’t mean right now. But, yeah, fifty visits and counting.

[comfy123]

Main thing really is the environment. I.e traffic, roads, pollution, trash etc…
In (most of Europe) these things are typically better taken care of and easily managed possibly due to smaller population density.

Doesn’t matter what GDP a country has…

[Taiwan_Luthiers]

A lot of small European countries have very high population density. You know like Luxembourg and Lichtenstein

[Gain]

@comfy123

Main thing really is the environment. I.e traffic, roads, pollution, trash etc…
In (most of Europe) these things are typically better taken care of and easily managed possibly due to smaller population density.

Some countries in Europe maybe. The majority of Europe is actually really polluted and dirty.

[OysterOmelet]

@comfy123

Main thing really is the environment. I.e traffic, roads, pollution, trash etc…
In (most of Europe) these things are typically better taken care of and easily managed possibly due to smaller population density.

Doesn’t matter what GDP a country has…

Downtown Budapest is dirty as hell.

[OysterOmelet]

@chabuduo

@OysterOmelet

Now that I’ve been going to Europe virtually every year, I see why. They only go to Thailand, and they have no interest in the Far East.

And you talked to virtually all 400 million of them of course What a dumb thread

Whoever taught you you need to talk to everyone is an idiot.

Survey sampling

[yyy]

@Noper

@yyy

@Noper

Europeans are technically going to other countries when they travel within Europe

I’m technically laughing at this!

Well, if it only takes a couple hours and you don’t have to show a passport or change currencies, it’s not really international travel in the traditional sense. More like traveling between states in the US.

Passport-free travel was perfectly normal before WWI, and the eurozone is not the only currency union out there. Just sayin’.

[yyy]

@volv1992

Boring.

I for one find it entertaining!

[PeterB]

@PeterB

Who is the “you” is the contentious point.

Yes, some Vikings settled what is now Russia/Ukraine.

[PeterB]

Let me reiterate my points:

Who is the “you” is the contentious point.

statue of limitations (?)

I’m all for selling out royal properties, British East India, Roman, Ottoman, Mongol empire crown jewels (perhaps Taiwan and China could return some of that stuff) , Mughal Empire could return some stuff to India etc

Oh, but elites wont let it go? They would prefer to pay with tax money of shmocks who in the past would be dying in the ranks of empire armies.

Kings robeth peasants payeth.

[Taiwan_Luthiers]

That was kinda the whole point of Schengen zone, they wanted to normalize passport free travel again.

[afterspivak]

@PeterB

Kings robeth peasants payeth.

Yes I agree there does seem to be a fair amount of this going on.

Guy

[TT]

@OysterOmelet

@chabuduo

@OysterOmelet

Now that I’ve been going to Europe virtually every year, I see why. They only go to Thailand, and they have no interest in the Far East.

And you talked to virtually all 400 million of them of course What a dumb thread

Whoever taught you you need to talk to everyone is an idiot.

Your process doesn’t rise to the level of a methodology

[Membrillo]

Anyway, maybe Europeans think Asia is poor because, in fact, it is a poor continent.

[OysterOmelet]

@TT

@OysterOmelet

@chabuduo

@OysterOmelet

Now that I’ve been going to Europe virtually every year, I see why. They only go to Thailand, and they have no interest in the Far East.

And you talked to virtually all 400 million of them of course What a dumb thread

Whoever taught you you need to talk to everyone is an idiot.

Your process doesn’t rise to the level of a methodology

I’d never consult you on methodology.

Asking Europeans who are already in Asia whether they’ve been to Asia LOL.