Links between Europeans

[Sikeliot]

Put a Sicilian in Sweden he would feel more at home in Sweden than in Syria for example.

Genetically and phenotypically no, but culturally the influence of Islam is so strong in Syria that they probably would feel more out of place in Syria because of that.

[MedBreeze]

Southern Europeans have far more in common with Northern Europeans than they have with North Africans or Middle East.

Put a Sicilian in Sweden he would feel more at home in Sweden than in Syria for example.

middle east and europe are geographical terms and both are heterogeneus. some middle easterns are closer to some europeans or vice versa as i think.
syria has many bedouin tribes, so less mediterrenean. but other mediterrenean countries share many things.

Best regards
MedBreeze

[GiCa]

i d prefer italy was an island

[Odin]

Albania, Kosovo and Bosnia?

They are a minority.

And even within Christianity, there have been the big historic divisions between a mainly Protestant North versus a mainly Catholic South versus a mainly Orthodox East etc.

Great Schism was a mistake. Europe would have been overrun by the tide of Islamic invaders, if Byzantium didn't protect it.

[Sebastianus Rex]

Southern Europeans have far more in common with Northern Europeans than they have with North Africans or Middle East.

Put a Sicilian in Sweden he would feel more at home in Sweden than in Syria for example.

That's because of religion that made Islamic societies so different from Christian/European ones. If the Levant/Anatolia had remained Christian I believe the a significant part of the European countries of the Mediterranean basin would identify more with them than with far northern European ones.

[wvwvw]

You'd feel more at home in Finland than in Turkey?

In some aspects I'd feel closer to Turkey, in others closer to Finland.

Asia Minor was part of Greece for millenia and lots of archeological sites, toponyms etc are still Greek.

But do I feel closer to Islamofascist Turks, and their middle eastern culture? no Their whole psychosynthesis of Muslims is different.

[Dick]

All Euro-benises descend from Raine's womb.

[Sebastianus Rex]

i d prefer italy was an island

Adesso muove il tuo culo per la Sicilia o la Sardegna.

[GiCa]

Adesso muove il tuo culo per la Sicilia o la Sardegna.

No: Terroni e Pecore

to my conational: i don t want to be ofensive (aka ive adquired parents from the south; and i like the climate and cusine of the south, but i d prefer to live where i am from, and if offered a good job i wont esitate to move in sardinia or sicily.. but the problem is.. that wont happen ever as there there isn t work.. or no?)

[Tacitus]

Why do I get the feeling this thread, for all its good intentions, will inevitably end up being a 10+ page shitstorm?

To answer the question though, it's Christianity, specifically "Christian values" set forth from the Renaissance and later the Enlightenment.