Skip Navigation

Memes @lemmy.ml Facelikeapotato @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Europe Classification

72 comments

Incidentally, both not native to Europe.

Europeans taking shit from other continents and making it theirs. It feels like there's a metaphor or something...
- I just went through all the things I think Europe does well or is known for, and I can’t think of anything that doesn’t either originate somewhere else or has been made better elsewhere. With the exceptions of cars(which doomed us and is still debatable euro cars are the best), wine(depending on how you categorize Georgia), and olive oil. Someone correct me if I’m missing something
  
  Edit: does French bread count?
  
  Watches
  Pizza
  Lots of musical instruments such as piano and violin
  Electronic music
  Gold, while it's unknown when and where exactly gold started to be mined the oldest artifacts found are from Bulgaria.
  Democracy
  
  But you will struggle coming up with examples of others countries as well. There are few countries that invented something and are still the best at. So much stuff was just invented so long ago. The only county where this is somewhat easy is the US with some technology.
  
  How far back does it count? Humans originate from Africa so everything we do can be seen as Africans doing things with stuff from all over the planet. Or perhaps even that is not far enough. What's the origin of the first mammal... The only contestant is change and life is good at mixing things up.
  
  Depends on you define best or known for when it comes to cars. Sure a BMW is nice but a Lexus will last twice as long for a fifth the price and is good.
  
  And bread, for invention, depends on whether or not you count leavened and unleavened separately. In terms of best, French bread is definitely S tier though.
  
  Ok now do America
  
  The whole world is interconnected, so it's hard to find anything that is the exclusive domain of one continent. Europeans aren't innately superior to the rest of the world, but they aren't innately inferior either. And even if they were, the idea that something only "counts" if you never interact with and learn from foreigners is a bizarre and arbitrary rule that goes against most of the important innovations throughout human history.
  
  Steam power Industrialisation Scientific Revolution / Scientific Method
  
  Seafaring and Navel Combat. We smashed it at that for a while.
Northern Europe:

Southern Europe:
You can use exact same line for "Butter Europe/ Olive oil Europe" It was one of the many reasons for rise of Protestant movements because the Vatican wanted to classify butter as an indulgence, because olive oil was used for all the oils where they were. Butter was seen as gross and a sin.
- Other traditional historical culinary divisions of Europe are beer/wine and white bread/dark bread (or wheat/rye).
- Based vegan Vatican.
Pre-1492 Europe: nonexistent
- There are other possibilities:
  
  butter/olive oil
  
  wine/beer
  
  wheat/rye
- Another, Pre-Columbian exchange, comparison would be butter Europe vs olive oil Europe.
- Post 1996 Europe: Bob Dole
as a Ukrainian, I'm proud to confirm that we have both
But do you pronounce it tomato or tomato?
- Tomate.
- Yep!
I've been travelling a lot in Spain and I'd consider it more a potato country than a tomato one. You get tortillas and patatas bravas everywhere.
Me, from austria: interesting
Tomatoes are from America though
- Potatoes too.
  
  Homo sapiens also doesn't originate from Europe.
  
  South America specifically.
Thus begins the Great Potatoe War. Technoblade would be proud
Nightshade Europe.
At least for Germany, the line lies way more to the north (and it’s rather pasta vs. potatoes).
- No part of Germany is part of Tomato Europe.
  
  (and it’s rather pasta vs. potatoes)
  
  That's just a different map.
Approved.
- One of us! One of us!

72 comments