| @climber_v12: Logically, if Europe is considered to exist as an entity, it must have boundaries. These can cross political borders. There are a number of countries that span other continents (Panama, Indonesia, Egypt etc). If one wishes to define Europe on cultural grounds, it would be necessary to explain how it is possible to differentiate between countries that are physically part of both Europe and Asia (Russia, Turkey, Greece, Georgia, Azerbaijan & Kazakhstan), countries that are not physically part of Europe (Armenia & Cyprus) and countries that are culturally but not physically part of Europe (Israel, the whole of the Americas & most of Oceania)? If one wishes to use a political definition, then surely Reunion, Curacao, French Guiana, Aruba, Sint Maarten, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Greenland, the Azores, Madeira, the Canaries, Ceuta and Melilla must all be part of Europe (despite this being palpable nonsense). Alternatively, one could use the definition of the Council of Europe which includes or recognises all of the aforementioned countries that are actually partly in Europe (Kazakhstan has guest status, but is acknowledged as being European) as well as Cyprus and Armenia (which are acknowledged as not being geographically European, but are included based on historic and cultural ties). Whichever method one uses, I cannot think of any logical or factual reason to exclude any of the countries that are partly in Europe other than based on Western cultural bias. Even then I would argue that Georgia is culturally far more European than a number of the other countries. |
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