Ethnographic Regions of Europe

[Peikko]

And finally statistics about innovation

The best countries at the top, oh yeah

[KawaiiKawaii]

The best countries at the top, oh yeah

They just missed the best of the best

[FeederOfRavens]

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[Cristiano viejo]

Why Caucasus would be considered as non-European seriously. Armenia is a beautiful country. Georgia too. They both had a strong religious influence. Caucasus is considered Europe de-facto.

By who?

[Aldaris]

Why Caucasus would be considered as non-European seriously. Armenia is a beautiful country. Georgia too. They both had a strong religious influence. Caucasus is considered Europe de-facto.

Whether Caucasian countries are beautiful, is irrelevant. So are pacific islands, for example. Any cultural influence is irrelevant aswell, since many American countries, like US, Canada or Argentina have even more European cultural influence, than Caucasian countries, yet it would be outlandish to consider them European. I think of Caucasian countries as of west Asian countries with unique cultures, which are influenced by Europeans quite a lot.

[blogen]

Why Caucasus would be considered as non-European seriously. Armenia is a beautiful country. Georgia too. They both had a strong religious influence. Caucasus is considered Europe de-facto.

Caucasus is Middle-East.

[Aldaris]

North Caucasus have strong European influence. Despite Chechnya and Dagestan being Muslim country, they are European.

South Caucasus is ethnically very Caucasian, but they are European. Armenoid influence is present among many Europeans.

Why the fuck do we call the white man the Caucasian race if they aren't Europeans ?

The commonly accepted definition of Europe is mainly, if not entirely, based on geography, not culture. Otherwise, it might not be clear, whether Albanians are more European than Canadians. (Of course they are) Caucasian racial cluster is named that way just because of historical reasons, as is common in many fields - it is named after a category's archetypal skull, which was of a Georgian woman.

[Cristiano viejo]

By other Europeans.

Let me tell you that some southern Spaniards have the same complexion of the Caucasus people and look more or less similar.

Southern Spaniards are just descendants of Northern Spaniards living in South Spain since the Reconquista, they have nothing to do with Caucasus people, nor culturally nor phenotypically.

[Полковник 95]

North Caucasus have strong European influence. Despite Chechnya and Dagestan being Muslim country, they are European.

South Caucasus is ethnically very Caucasian, but they are European. Armenoid influence is present among many Europeans.

North Caucasus has pretty much no European influence. I don't know what you're talking about. It's the opposite, the South Caucasus has historical and cultural ties to Europe and the Middle East (Greeks, Persians, Ottomans) which however does not apply to the North Caucasus which has largely been isolated.

[blogen]

Really idiot to say something like this Armenia and Georgia are NOT middle-east.

Chechnya culturally not, despite being Muslims. And ethnically not, they are like Georgians, Dagestanis and the others except Armenians in some extent : Caucasians.

No proven middle-eastern influence. Turkey is not middle-east.

What is European there? Middle-Eastern religions (Oriental Christanism, Islam), Middle-Eastern racial types, Middle-Eastern type culture. Anything is Middle-Eastern there. Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, the small republics of Russia are totally uneuropean countries. The Russian population of the Kuban plain are European only.

ps. Turkey is mostly Near-East, but the Caucasus directly connected to the Middle-East with Eastern Turkey.