Alright, technically incorrect, I should have said 'continentals'
110V vs 230V - a dumb question?
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If you're talking about geography, rather than politics, Scandinavians are 'European', aren't they?
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If you go back in history far enough you might find out that we are all immigrants.
What about culture and ethnicity?
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Culture, undoubtedly - these days, that can vary from one to another part of the same city. The same can even be true of ethnicity, but I know far too little about the ethnic origins of people in different parts of geographical Europe to be able to comment generally about that.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Europe
Geography/politics/culture/ethnicity - all affect what is meant by "Scandinavian", "French", "European", "British" etc. Especially when the second of those factors starts extending east of The Bosphorus...
Were Norsemen Scandinavian and European in the 9th & 10th centuries, or did they migrate into "Europe"? And become assimilated?
When did the Normans become French? And when they did was it because of a cultural assimilation, or from dipping into the Franks' gene pool?
Geography/politics/culture/ethnicity - all affect what is meant by "Scandinavian", "French", "European", "British" etc. Especially when the second of those factors starts extending east of The Bosphorus...
Were Norsemen Scandinavian and European in the 9th & 10th centuries, or did they migrate into "Europe"? And become assimilated?
When did the Normans become French? And when they did was it because of a cultural assimilation, or from dipping into the Franks' gene pool?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Europe
Geography/politics/culture/ethnicity - all affect what is meant by "Scandinavian", "French", "European", "British" etc. Especially when the second of those factors starts extending east of The Bosphorus...
Were Norsemen Scandinavian and European in the 9th & 10th centuries, or did they migrate into "Europe"? And become assimilated?
When did the Normans become French? And when they did was it because of a cultural assimilation, or from dipping into the Franks' gene pool?
Not sure if everyone became French. These tall blonde guys wearing kilts and speaking an odd old fashioned language and pressed through to have bilingual road signs at the central government in Paris (and they are really stubborn).
Celts weren't tall and blonde, and did not come from Scandinavia.
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Yes, right, but they happen to live roughly in the same area of France. What I wanted to say, even if France is strictly centralistic, they acknowlege at least 3 languages besides French (Bréton, Provençale and Basque, any more?), so they are by far not as uniform as some migth wish they were. So different areas of France reflect different ethnic groups.
Ah yes Alsacienne...
Not sure if total assimilation is something positive!?
Interesting:
The Celts (yes East of the Bosporus too:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Celts_in_Europe.png
The Anglo-Saxons:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...wanderung.jpg/800px-Karte_völkerwanderung.jpg
The Normans:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Normannen.png/800px-Normannen.png
Today:
http://fwdpr.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Futureversity-DSC00956-High-Res-300x199.jpg
Ah yes Alsacienne...
Not sure if total assimilation is something positive!?
Interesting:
The Celts (yes East of the Bosporus too:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Celts_in_Europe.png
The Anglo-Saxons:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...wanderung.jpg/800px-Karte_völkerwanderung.jpg
The Normans:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Normannen.png/800px-Normannen.png
Today:
http://fwdpr.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Futureversity-DSC00956-High-Res-300x199.jpg
Not Basque, and not Provencale, which is just a dialect of Occitan (as in langue d'oc), which is recognised. You also forgot Catalan, Corsican, Gallo, Tahitian and some of the languages of New Caledonia. (But then you probably didn't use Wikipedia, which I did to check what I already thought about Provencale vs Occitan
).Not sure that in the long term it's anything that anyone can do anything about, either one way or another. It happens or it does not. Languages remain in use, or they do not, and there seems little logic in the decisions to give languages official status, introduce bilingual signs etc.
Curiously, the only language which has official status in the UK is Welsh.
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Switzerland has 4 official languages, and yes it makes sence to have signs in several languages as place names differ significantly in the different languages, some you can guess, others not. I live near Solothurn/ Soleur, Biel/ Bienne, Neuenburg/Neuchâtel and Münster/ Moutier. Genf/ Génève/ Geneva is a bit further away.
South Africa has eleven official languages, where English is number 4 only.
English makes sence as a common language, as it is very easy to learn to an extent where you can communicate at least somehow. The simplicity of the grammar is only beaten by single syllable languages as Mandarin. Unfortunately there are no reliable pronounciation rules.
I wouldn't give that up for Hindi/Urdu/Tamil, etc.
South Africa has eleven official languages, where English is number 4 only.
English makes sence as a common language, as it is very easy to learn to an extent where you can communicate at least somehow. The simplicity of the grammar is only beaten by single syllable languages as Mandarin. Unfortunately there are no reliable pronounciation rules.
I wouldn't give that up for Hindi/Urdu/Tamil, etc.
I presume you would know: how does Romansch differ from German, French and Italian?
What, not even English?!
No, not even English.
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