Thoughts on ************?

[TheForeigner]

What do people here think of the ''pan-med'' ************? I think it is quite an unlikely cultural mix that they claim to represent. They have among the listed countries there all the South European countries, all the''MENA'' countries and even some East African ones like Sudan and Ethiopia! What kind of supposedly coherent cultural grouping is that? There are no common cultural, ethnic, racial, historical or even geographic ties between Greece, let alone Croatia, and Somalia or even Egypt or Palestine. Ok, we get Christianity from the Near East and civilization started there and in ancient Egypt too and these early civilizations also influence ancient Greco-Roman ones. But even ancient Greeks and Romans would have face palmed at such a incoherent hodge podge of ''related and similar cultures and peoples''. I think alfieb just included all the peoples and countries he doesn't hate and who are not too light pigmented.

[alfieb]

Quite frankly, I think they suck.

[alfieb]

[And every major ethnic group from Portugal to the Caucasus has their own section on ************, so it's not cherry-picked. Serbs, FYR Macedonians, even the French, whom my love for is legendary...]

[Dandelion]

He should have included Finland in his 'Other' section. While not meds (hence the 'Other' section for them), alfieb and Finns go back a while and they still potentially have this typically symbiotic relationship.

I have checked ************ once and that was when I read about 'alfieb having a forum' so I had to take a look. It can be interpreted as a saner version of Skadi I guess, but instead of Germanic Mediterranean. Emphasis on 'saner'.

[Iltirbas]

Can't be arsed to go through the registration process just to be able to browse the forum and see the content of the threads on there.

[TheForeigner]

[And every major ethnic group from Portugal to the Caucasus has their own section on ************, so it's not cherry-picked. Serbs, FYR Macedonians, even the French, whom my love for is legendary...]

Why do you have African and Middle Eastern countries too? And many would argue that even Euro-Med countries don't form a cultural cluster.

[alfieb]

Why do you have African and Middle Eastern countries too? And many would argue that even Euro-Med countries don't form a cultural cluster.

Clustering was done based on geography, not culture.

And whether a country is part of the Middle East or not is irrelevant. Unlike Apricity, Forum ******* does not nor has ever professed to give even the remotest of fucks about being a European Cultural Community. Syrians are just as welcome as Spaniards. There were Roman Emperors from both of those countries.

And the Horn of Africa has been in constant contact with the Mediterranean for thousands of years, back to the days of the writing of the Jewish Bible, with the Queen of Sheba and all of that nonsense. Nubian dynasties ruling over Egypt, etc. etc.

They're not considered Mediterranean, obviously... although some moronic scientists 100 years ago claimed they were Caucasoids. I just gave them their own separate section since we had a few Horners and I figured what the hell.

[TheForeigner]

I don't think the Mediterranean is a cultural continuum, like Europe is. I think even Sicilians have more in common with Germans, than with Egyptians or Syrians.

[TheForeigner]

And how come you don't like the French alfieb? Is that an Italian thing, an American thing or both?

[Linebacker]

It would have been better if there weren't so many apricity members there.

I made an account to get away from the low level IQ-destroying content of apricity and discuss with new and mentally fresh people but it turned out to bite me in the ass.