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Assuming that you think language group = culture, does that mean England and France are culturally similar to Bangladesh? I mean, Bengali is an Indo-European language, isn't it?
To call Norway "germanic" is some sort of insult. Sure there are many norwegians who have origins from Sweden and especially Denmark but to call it germanic because of that is somehow wrong.
Would you like to be identified as "Latin" instead may be? ( Finns will be in line to take your Germanic spot then.)
On Indo-European list you know.
Albanians go first.
You didn't even make the list.
Yeah.
We can be our own group as well with Estonia, I don't mind, as long as we are not in the same group as the Slavs, Szökö-Lökö Huns (aka Hungarians) or the Semi-Russians (aka Balts).
We can be our own group as well with Estonia, I don't mind, as long as we are not in the same group as the Slavs, Szökö-Lökö Huns (aka Hungarians)
Uh, can't help you here - you'll end up in the same group with Czechs most likely - they like to claim that they are Germanic too in spite of their language, and Hungarians - did they fill out any application lately ( Latin or Germanic) or do you know? Because obviously they don't want to be Slavic and they won't be happy filed as Asians.
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or the Semi-Russians (aka Balts).
Semi-Russian yourself, I'm sure they'll come up with something creative.
P.S. Still checking on Bangladesh, now that Magnus brought their language to my attention. (I always felt suspicious about Brits and their so-called "Europeannes." We'll see what they will claim to be at the end. )
Europe cannot be identified by latin, germanic, slavic....
Ive experience in eastern Europe and they are all very different
while the polish are more similar to baltic people, the Czech are more Germany like, Hungarians are a melting pot (germans, latin, slavic, balcans, turks and huns) all mixed into one.
then you have the balkans (with their mediterranean influence)
Language is not everything, and culture does not always come with language. Finns are an ethnic group widespread throughout this part of Europe, with about 5 million in Finland and more than half a million in Sweden, they are not culturally different from Scandinavians who happens to speak an Indo-European language.
No, Finnish is not a Germanic or Indo-European language and will never be. But the cultureand way of life has way more in common with the rest of Scandinavia than it does with other countries speaking Uralic languages, an extremely small but at the same time very diverse language family of 3 non-intelligible major languages, plus a bunch of very small and rare minority languages, many on the edge of extinction. Just as there is not any common "Indo-European culture", there is not any common "Uralic culture".
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( Finns will be in line to take your Germanic spot then.)
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Because obviously they don't want to be Slavic and they won't be happy filed as Asians. 
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