New borders of Europe

[Lobster]

Should north Africa and Middle East become parts of Europe? People living there are by phenotype, genotype and even culture/history (Indo-European langauge start in Bengal and end in Iceland, Christianity came from Levant, Northern Africa and Levant were part of Roman empire) closer to Europe than to rest of their continents. We are one!!!

[Jambudvīpa]

Europe has always been somewhat arbitrarily defined. since it is a made up continent the border can shift as necessary. Recently there's even some Western Europeans saying that Slavic Russians aren't european. It's convenience that matters.

[Etelfrido]

No, very different cultures, history and genetics. Christianity originated in the Levant but got very Europeanized and while Indo-European languages go from Iceland to India in MENA countries they're not common, except a few ones like Farsi and Kurdish.
The Levant's a bit more similar to Europe than North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula but still quite distinct.

[Lobster]

No, very different cultures, history and genetics. Christianity originated in the Levant but got very Europeanized and while Indo-European languages go from Iceland to India in MENA countries they're not common, except a few ones like Farsi and Kurdish.
The Levant's a bit more similar to Europe than North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula but still quite distinct.

Everyone has right to have his opinion

[Blondie]

Europe has always been somewhat arbitrarily defined. since it is a made up continent the border can shift as necessary. Recently there's even some Western Europeans saying that Slavic Russians aren't european. It's convenience that matters.

In the reality, the borders of Europe were always pretty clear. Anatolia was still "Asia" according to romans, just like Algeria, Tunesia, Morocco, Lybia were province of "Africa". Europeans always distinguished themselves from MENA.
The only questionable area is eastern part of East Europe where siberians, turkics lived before the russian conquest.

[Melkiirs]

No, very different cultures, history and genetics. Christianity originated in the Levant but got very Europeanized and while Indo-European languages go from Iceland to India in MENA countries they're not common, except a few ones like Farsi and Kurdish.
The Levant's a bit more similar to Europe than North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula but still quite distinct.

There is no vast gap between far Southern Europeans like Southern Italians or Greek Islanders and West Asians. Including Jewish groups there is hardly a gap at all. Volga-Ural groups are still predominately West Eurasian and do not have a huge gap from the range of ethnic Russians. In Central and South Asia by contrast where AASI and East Eurasian admixture is more prominent the population there clusters less continuously with MENAs and Europeans.




https://eurogenes.blogspot.com/2013/...ia-13.html?m=1

[Etelfrido]

There is no vast gap between far Southern Europeans like Southern Italians or Greek Islanders and West Asians. Including Jewish groups there is hardly a gap at all. Volga-Ural groups are still predominately West Eurasian and do not have a huge gap from the range of ethnic Russians. In Central and South Asia by contrast where AASI and East Eurasian admixture is more prominent the population there clusters less continuously with MENAs and Europeans.




https://eurogenes.blogspot.com/2013/...ia-13.html?m=1

Jews have been mixing with Europeans for millenia, remove them and the gap's clearer.

[Incal]

Why annex the globe's second most advanced zone with the 2 most useless places on earth?

[Cristiano viejo]

Europe has always been somewhat arbitrarily defined. since it is a made up continent the border can shift as necessary. Recently there's even some Western Europeans saying that Slavic Russians aren't european. It's convenience that matters.

Recently?? juas

[ugochaves]

Europe has always been somewhat arbitrarily defined. since it is a made up continent the border can shift as necessary. Recently there's even some Western Europeans saying that Slavic Russians aren't european. It's convenience that matters.

Russians are not considered by some Southern Europeans to be Europeans, while they really want to be like Russians. This is called self-doubt and self-doubt about your origin. I don't care if I'm European or not. They are very attached to this definition - "European" and especially to the English word "white". They are offended when I say that I am a non-European race. It's very funny. That's why they're all trolled.