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YF-23 posted:This thread is great, god knows I love maps. Awesome, Australia's still called New Holland and Tasmania Van Diemen's land. We should really ask for it back 
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Reveilled posted:Personally, I find the American interest in the pop/soda/coke discussion rather bemusing because I can't think of a circumstance in which you'd mention carbonated sugary drinks outside the context of asking for a specific variety. Possibly "I don't let my kids drink soda"?  
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It needs a "None" category   "The percentage of atheist, agnostic, nonreligious, irreligious population around the world. The data is based on 2006 total population."
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Red_Mage posted:A less interactive more big map: Whats with the clenched fist as a white power symbol? I'm pretty sure that's a labor/socialist symbol.
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Why is Austria not marked as Österreich? Also, Great Netherlands looks like normal Netherlands with a horrific tumor 
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Muscle Tracer posted:Here's what the U.S. Department of State has to say on that. Well, yeah, but if you're not from the US you would be fine, I'd think.
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Soviet Commubot posted:Another French map, percentage of votes for and against the European constitution treaty in 2005. Bluer means more votes for, redder means more votes against. Here's the Dutch version of the same map (only without gradations)  In the Netherlands the political center was for Europe, while the right and the left were against. The left was afraid of regressive neo-liberalism handed down by undemocratic bureaucrats, while the right is afraid of foreigners in general. ekuNNN fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Apr 13, 2013 |
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prefect posted:Maybe it's just the way the news reports these things, but it sounds like Germany runs the EU and is in charge of dictating terms that people have to follow in order to get their economies bailed out. You're confusing Germany with the ECB and IMF 
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Riso posted:That's because the USA is rather unique that way. People go there with the express purpose of leaving everything behind. This sounds like American exceptionalism. Apart from the countires other people brought up, don't forget: Bolivia is officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Spanish: Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia, Quechua: Bulivya Mamallaqta, Aymara: Wuliwya Suyu)  
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Why is canada connected to the middle east? Immigration? Also, it's neat to see the connection of Spain and France with their former colonies.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Took the data from kustomkarkommando's link and made some maps: Dutch people generally look down on the German fondness for dubbing and make fun of it a lot. And because almost everyone is pretty good at English most people feel that the French should just get over themselves and speak English like normal people, when dealing with foreigners. Because of the media we consume most people quickly lose their German and/or French language skills from school, but we keep using our English.
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It also seems like it would be much cheaper to sub a movie than to dub it.
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Eh, my commute to school used to be an hour and a half in the Netherlands, my commute to work now is 30 minutes (on a bike though). This is just Phlegmish being weird I guess. edit, maps for the map god: interactive map showing average commute times in the US http://project.wnyc.org/commute-times-us/embed.html#5.00/42.000/-89.500 ekuNNN fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Nov 4, 2013 |
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Phlegmish posted:I suspect it's just realism. There's not much hope for the smaller countries. That doesn't stop some people, here's The Greatest Netherlands  
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It's some alternative history thing but based mainly on places Dutch explorers or traders landed, it seems: http://lamnay.deviantart.com/art/Groot-Nederland-206986625
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twoot posted:They didn't. http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/americans-try-to-place-european-countries-on-a-map The Netherlands doesn't look like that  Not really fair to ask people to identify countries on a map that gets the shape of countries wrong.
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Ah, I didn't realize it was so out of date  I might try my hand at making an updated one soon, then.
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Should have posted the Tuvan Internationale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLF7Fl4SXh8  I can't find the cool map I had showing European Communist party logos, so this'll have to do for now: 
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ekuNNN posted:I can't find the cool map I had showing European Communist party logos, so this'll have to do for now: I found it, but it looks a lot crappier than I remember  (although the Turkish Communist Party's (TKP) logo is still great  )So here's another communism map: 
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Phlegmish posted:Haha, I like them playing it safe by using the English acronym for the Belgian communist party. Yeah, although the Russian КПРФ got ~15% last election (although I don't know how communist they still are, with Putin apparently allowing them to exist ), and the Greek KKE got 4.5%.While looking into a few of them I also found out that the TKP doesn't exist anymore quote:After a period of internal strife, two rival factions of TKP reached a consensus on 15 July 2014 to freeze the activities of the party and that neither faction shall use the name and emblem of TKP.
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SkySteak posted:Come on dude, no independent Cornwall? Also: Friesland isn't independent from the Netherlands in that map, and Belgium isn't two separate countries but got absorbed by the Netherlands and France. A shameful Balkanised Europe map
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icantfindaname posted:Is there a significant Frisian independence movement in the Netherlands? Nah not really, although there is a Fryske Nasjonale Partij. From Wikipedia: The FNP is a left-wing nationalist party, which advocates a federalist political system in which Frisians get more autonomy. It calls for greater autonomy of the region, government use, protection and recognition of the Frisian language and Frisian control over its gas reserves. Here's a map of active separatist movements in Europe. Red names indicate regions with movements that only claim greater autonomy within the actual state. Black names indicate regions with important secessionist movements, although both categories include moderate movements. The nations highlighted in colors are the territories claimed by the local nationalist groups, including areas out of the state's borders and cases of annexation to other states: 
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Kamrat posted:Southeast Asia sure has a lot of different scripts, feels like it's one for each country in certain regions and in some cases, several in the same country. I'm betting the Americas would have looked like that as well, if millions of people hadn't been wiped out by European diseases  Sorry about the inaccurate Scandinavian name map, here's another dubious map: 
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AlexG posted:Russia is going to be changing its time zones in October, and going to "permanent winter time". Russia preparing for permanent winter in october, what do they know that we don't?  
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