To call people Eastern Europeans is a rude insult and all of you know that

[Magnolia]

Honestly.
One has to be really dumb if is not able to get that people from former Eastern Block hate to be called Eastern Europeans.
All dirty stereotypes are hidden in that label.
But it is still widely used here.

Why? Are you dumb or just enjoy seeing other people being butthurt?

[Vlatko Vukovic]

Honestly.
One has to be really dumb if is not able to get that people from former Eastern Block hate to be called Eastern Europeans.
All dirty stereotypes are hidden in that label.
But it is still widely used here.

Why? Are you dumb or just enjoy seeing other people being butthurt?

And you really believe that Russians and Lyssy's xoxol's are feeling insulted when you call them Eastern Euro? They're taking pride in that.

[Jana]

You are right, but it is still better than being called balkanite, which is even worse than that.

[Marmara]

It's an accurate labeling.

[Jana]

It's an accurate labeling.

Not from the perspective of Czechs and Hungarians for example, who don't have much in common with real easterners: Russians.

That's why Russian won't be insulted to be called easterner, because he is that. And that's why Albanians won't be insulted to be called balkanite, because that's what they are.

Problems is with countries that are pushed in this two cathegories due to politics, not culture , and ofcourse because the way people use this labels on TA implies putting other people down.

[Bobby Martnen]

It's not anymore insulting than Western, Northern, or Southern European.

[Vlatko Vukovic]

I don't have problem to be called Balkanite.

[Magnolia]

It's not anymore insulting than Western, Northern, or Southern European.

So why nobody (let's leave aside Russians) wants to be called like that?

[Bobby Martnen]

So why nobody (let's leave aside Russians) wants to be called like that?

Because of some bizarre mental hang-ups. If you're from Eastern Europe, you're Eastern European, just like I'm from the Midwestern US, so I'm a Midwesterner.

[Damião de Góis]

I think most people see it as a geographic reference. The cold war was a long time ago.