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Posted February 25, 2015
Norway
Posted February 25, 2015
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Soccorro: Look at the ops post. Turkey is totally valid.
OP said "partially European", that's technically correct as a whopping 3% of Turkey is geographically in Europe... 97% of the country is not in Europe so take your pick. It's not rocket science. Geography is a deciding factor because otherwise, let's count Australia and New Zealand to Europe as well, right.
If you wanted to build a case around culture being a deciding factor and say Turkey is part of Europe because Istanbul and larger cities look European, one could call that soft bigotry of lower expectations because Turkey and its 70-80% Turkish citizens have a uniquely Turkish culture of their own, and traditional Turkish culture is much closer to that of the other Turkic countries than to any European country. There's people who seriously claim that saying Turkey is not part of Europe is "racist and demeaning" (no joke). I would retort that this kind of sentiment -verbalized or not- is a perfect example of the aforementioned soft bigotry of lower expectations.
All these attempts to count Turkey to Europe don't seem quite rational, I can see there is a political agenda behind it for some (to make Turkey join the EU) but if we're talking geography and culture and keep it real, Turkey is clearly neither in Europe nor European. Even if there has been considerable Westernization in terms of clothing, architecture, infrastructure etc, this doesn't overpower the fact that Turkey has maintained its own traditional culture. Same as Japan, you couldn't go around and claim that Japan belongs to Europe because the country has been westernized in many aspects from the Meiji period onward and most everyone wears Western clothes.


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Soccorro: Never mind, im not going to turn this thread into a battlefield. I very well know what youre up to.
If you think I'm up to something, be fair and spill it out or let it go.
Posted February 25, 2015
Australia, I heard that it's part of Europe now :o
Posted February 25, 2015
Monaco

So, I'm a bit confused on how this will work. 1 guess every 2 hours, needing 4 guesses guessed correctly to win, meaning an ideal situation will win after 8 hours IF they guess a correct country with each guess? This means we should ignore previous guesses from others and just guess our 4 over an 8 hour period?
Post edited February 25, 2015 by drealmer7
Posted February 25, 2015
Greenland
Posted February 25, 2015
China!!! Am i doing this right?
Posted February 25, 2015
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Posted February 25, 2015
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BenKii: You do realize almost everyone here will pick the Witcher 3 as the prize since it's made in a European country. You might want to think about changing the rules about the prizes.
I wouldn't!
Posted February 25, 2015
Nobody mentioned Poland? :) What's the point of visiting Poland when Irenald is turning into Poland 2.0 :)
Posted February 25, 2015
Sealand!

http://www.funnyjunk.com/channel/polandball/Sealand+irrelevent/tYtwGgL
Post edited February 25, 2015 by Cyberevil
Posted February 25, 2015
Russia.

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awalterj: ...........
What you said it's correct but I second the opinion that OP consider Turkey to be in Europe, and there are 66% chances to be one of the countries not visited by him/her.
Posted February 25, 2015

Turkey
Posted February 25, 2015
Faroe Islands
Posted February 25, 2015
Lithuania is stil unmentioned ^^
Posted February 25, 2015
Didn't want to edit my post in case that might cause problems with rules. I get the feeling you've probably been to Italy, and if you've been to Italy, you've been to Rome, and if you've been to Rome you've probably been to the Vatican.
But still! :D

EDIT: Turns out my post automatically got edited anyhow. Oh well, I've added my actual entry underneath.
Vatican City

Double Edit: It seems I cannot post successive posts, so you'll just have to trust me that I didn't edit my guess of Vatican City :D.
Post edited February 25, 2015 by babark
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