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Old 12-18-2016, 09:16 AM
 
Location: Seoul
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Oh Christ, the Middle East is a disaster on that map
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Old 12-18-2016, 02:56 PM
 
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Jesus no, these countries are completely different
Completely different in which sense? Maybe if you have an stereotyped idea of both countries...

As I said, I'm highlander Colombian who has been to Northern Peru and I just felt like home there. The landscape/climate is pretty much the same as in my origin region, the overall ambience, even the idiosincrasy of people. A guy from there who visited Bogota and the surrounding areas, had the same point of view.

Two countries that share a 1600 km border, the same language, a common history, a very similar level of income, etc, can't be completely different from each other.
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Old 12-18-2016, 03:05 PM
 
Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands
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Oh Christ, the Middle East is a disaster on that map
True, it would be better if Turkmenistan united with Uzbekistan plus Lebanon and Azeraijan staying independent.
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Old 12-18-2016, 03:33 PM
 
Location: United Kingdom
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I can't fathom why foreigners think splitting up the constituent countries of the British Isles into tiny independent states is a feasible idea. Imo, the constituent countries in the British Isles coming together, collectively to form one country are powerful (with massive bargaining power) but as seperate countries they are weak.
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Old 12-18-2016, 08:24 PM
 
Location: Taipei
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I can't fathom why foreigners think splitting up the constituent countries of the British Isles into tiny independent states is a feasible idea. Imo, the constituent countries in the British Isles coming together, collectively to form one country are powerful (with massive bargaining power) but as seperate countries they are weak.
I think it's just what seems plausible at the moment. If some more people voted to leave 2 years ago Scotland has already left.

And really, people from smaller countries tend to give zero ****s about being "powerful".

Btw seriously? Taiwan and Japan? I know that there are lots of Japonophiles here but that's like totally crazy. There are too many differences. Japan is like super organised and detailed while Taiwan is like the exact opposite. And while Japanese is a very popular foreign language here, most people don't know it.
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Old 12-18-2016, 09:26 PM
 
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Completely different in which sense? Maybe if you have an stereotyped idea of both countries...

As I said, I'm highlander Colombian who has been to Northern Peru and I just felt like home there. The landscape/climate is pretty much the same as in my origin region, the overall ambience, even the idiosincrasy of people. A guy from there who visited Bogota and the surrounding areas, had the same point of view.

Two countries that share a 1600 km border, the same language, a common history, a very similar level of income, etc, can't be completely different from each other.
I am Colombian and I dont find Peru is similar to Colombia at all.

your perception doesnt really mean we're the same

peru is similar to Colombia in the sense argentina is similar to Dominican Republic.
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Old 12-18-2016, 10:36 PM
 
Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands
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Btw seriously? Taiwan and Japan? I know that there are lots of Japonophiles here but that's like totally crazy. There are too many differences. Japan is like super organised and detailed while Taiwan is like the exact opposite. And while Japanese is a very popular foreign language here, most people don't know it.
The Japanese will clean up Taiwan and teach them to keep it that way.
You don't need to speak the same language to be part of the same country and you can introduce Japanese in schools so the next generations can speak it.
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Old 12-19-2016, 06:36 AM
 
Location: Taipei
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The Japanese will clean up Taiwan and teach them to keep it that way.
You don't need to speak the same language to be part of the same country and you can introduce Japanese in schools so the next generations can speak it.
That would probably have worked back in 1945, but not in 2016.
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Old 12-19-2016, 08:20 AM
 
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I am Colombian and I dont find Peru is similar to Colombia at all.

your perception doesnt really mean we're the same

peru is similar to Colombia in the sense argentina is similar to Dominican Republic.
lool

you are definitely not Colombian.

edit: oh, I understand, you are the famous irene. AFAIK, you have lived all of your life in the US, am I correct?
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Old 12-21-2016, 04:57 PM
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Independent sovereign republics always have the possibility to combine together with the right diplomacy occurrence. I see this happening with Netherlands-Belgium-Luxembourg = Benelux, Sweden-Norway-Denmark= Scandinavian, Mexico-Guatemala-Nicaragua-El Salvador-Panama-Costa Rica-Honduras= Central Americas Federation, Columbia-Venezuela, Peru-Ecuador, Bolivia-Paraguay, Argentina-Uruguay= South Americas Union, Czech Republic-Slovakia-Poland= Western Slavic Outside Of Anything Russian Related, Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan-Turkmenistan= Central Asian Persian Carpet, and finally Ukraine-Belarus = Heavily Hardcore Slavic Borderline Not Russian.

Woah, rather than being too breakaway, Yugoslavia ought to come back into a union to exactly resemble the past.
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