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Old 07-13-2017, 08:33 PM
 
Location: Cannes
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Just like the title says, what are the strengths and weaknesses of each continent?
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Old 07-13-2017, 09:08 PM
 
Location: Seoul
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North America

Strengths - Mountains, beautiful beaches, cuisine

Weaknesses - Too many suburbs, huge travel distances, lack of well preserved history, unstable climate, hurricanes, tornadoes, too boring, expensive air travel, unstable borders, crime, lack of walkability, crappy public transport, unhealthy work-life balance

South America

Strengths - Culture, history, friendly people, slower pace of life, extravertedness, cuisine, wine, music styles, diversity, climate, breathtaking mountains, waterfalls, tropical highlands, beaches, stunning biodiversity, eclectic cities, walkable

Weaknesses - Huge travel distances, expensive air travel, corruption, crime

Africa

Strengths - Nature

Weaknesses - Underdeveloped, homophobia, religious intolerance, crime, war, corruption

Asia

Strengths - Cuisine, thousands of years of history, safety, diversity, beaches, mountains, unique cultures, big cities, technology, architecture, linguistic diversity, easy travel, top-notch public transport, affordable

Weaknesses - Distrust towards foreigners, insolation, overly rigid and conservative social structures, workaholism

Europe

Strengths - Safety, security, extremely easy travel, culture, thousands of years of history, public transport, big cities, progressiveness, mountains, healthy work-life balance, safety net, social services, beaches

Weaknesses - Pretentiousness, rude people, cuisine

Oceania

Strengths - Amazing climate, outdoorsy activities, beaches, safety, stability

Weaknesses - Too isolated from everything
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Old 07-13-2017, 11:33 PM
 
Location: Cannes
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North America

Strengths - Mountains, beautiful beaches, cuisine

Weaknesses - Too many suburbs, huge travel distances, lack of well preserved history, unstable climate, hurricanes, tornadoes, too boring, expensive air travel, unstable borders, crime, lack of walkability, crappy public transport, unhealthy work-life balance

South America

Strengths - Culture, history, friendly people, slower pace of life, extravertedness, cuisine, wine, music styles, diversity, climate, breathtaking mountains, waterfalls, tropical highlands, beaches, stunning biodiversity, eclectic cities, walkable

Weaknesses - Huge travel distances, expensive air travel, corruption, crime

Africa

Strengths - Nature

Weaknesses - Underdeveloped, homophobia, religious intolerance, crime, war, corruption

Asia

Strengths - Cuisine, thousands of years of history, safety, diversity, beaches, mountains, unique cultures, big cities, technology, architecture, linguistic diversity, easy travel, top-notch public transport, affordable

Weaknesses - Distrust towards foreigners, insolation, overly rigid and conservative social structures, workaholism

Europe

Strengths - Safety, security, extremely easy travel, culture, thousands of years of history, public transport, big cities, progressiveness, mountains, healthy work-life balance, safety net, social services, beaches

Weaknesses - Pretentiousness, rude people, cuisine

Oceania

Strengths - Amazing climate, outdoorsy activities, beaches, safety, stability

Weaknesses - Too isolated from everything
Great write up!!! Thanks
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Old 09-19-2017, 02:46 PM
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Only focusing on Europe, Asia exclusively. The only Continents that I believe in deep down with real authentic cultural anthropology native roots. Exactly equal preference for each identification scale with tons of value on each side of the continuum spectrum.

Europe

Strengths In Favor Of: Quintessential Classical Baroque Nouveau unique in each country, occasionally more specific details on the buildings, geographic travels close proximity, tons of neighboring alliance with the European Union yet quite exotic aliens simultaneously, language variety, economically wealthy enough usually at least to a Planet Earth standard while maintaining rich ethnic cultural heritage, high variety destination zones scattered absolutely everywhere, Iberian-Romance Latin-Benelux-Celtic-Scandinavia-Germanic-Austro Hungarian-Czechoslovakian Polish-Baltic-Slavic-Balkan

Disadvantages: Usually severe lack of modern skyscrapers, sometimes just not cohesive or massive enough (Example: Slovenia of former Yugoslavia), way too much of a summer reliance(Having to keep everything year round for tourism, especially for beach communities), thousands of Nightclub Discotheque Bars closing down just since one decade ago roughly(Especially in the UK, Netherlands, Romania), Refugee crisis not occurring that far into the past, sudden rising of terrorism attacks(Even when tons of mainland European countries continue to not have any issues)

Asia

Pros: Modern High rises frequently, Pagodas from dynasties centuries background, recently thriving with less stagnancy, preferring their own technological companies(Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars, Laptop Computers), appropriate mega entity sovereignties without dissolving them up too often (Rarely ever less vast than South Korea), relatively year round festive vibrancy(Tons of Europe closes in comparison away from the middle of summer zenith), recent grand openings of night bar venues that are happening quite frequently enough in reflection to the prior occurrence, occasionally superior cultural wealth other than with food ethnic cuisines variety, further ubiquitous coverage of megalopolis cities at a constant rate, their own historic colonial buildings outside on the other types of classification systems.

Cons: Broken interruptions rather than endlessly consistent (Country next door borders, Nationally, Geographically), Not always encompassing a unique iconic design for the architectural marvels of quickly ascending floors on top, at a per capita rate just sometimes a bit extra widespread poverty, coffee stores aren’t usually reaching the glamour found in Europe, less plural collective diversity of easygoing touristic entries, territorially less adjacent to each other available options, less political democracies with these types of freedoms, often rather traditional conservative scale.
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Old 09-19-2017, 03:00 PM
 
Location: Near Luxembourg
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Great write up!!! Thanks
Cuisine, a weakness of Europe ?
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Old 09-19-2017, 05:06 PM
 
Location: Bologna, Italy
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Yeah, that lack of skyscrapers is really disturbing and the number one reason I plan on leaving someday.
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Old 09-19-2017, 05:08 PM
 
Location: Chicago- Hyde Park
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Africa-
strength- natural resources and history
Weakness- colonialism
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Old 09-19-2017, 06:57 PM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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North America

Strengths - Mountains, beautiful beaches, cuisine

Weaknesses - Too many suburbs, huge travel distances, lack of well preserved history, unstable climate, hurricanes, tornadoes, too boring, expensive air travel, unstable borders, crime, lack of walkability, crappy public transport, unhealthy work-life balance

South America

Strengths - Culture, history, friendly people, slower pace of life, extravertedness, cuisine, wine, music styles, diversity, climate, breathtaking mountains, waterfalls, tropical highlands, beaches, stunning biodiversity, eclectic cities, walkable

Weaknesses - Huge travel distances, expensive air travel, corruption, crime

Africa

Strengths - Nature

Weaknesses - Underdeveloped, homophobia, religious intolerance, crime, war, corruption

Asia

Strengths - Cuisine, thousands of years of history, safety, diversity, beaches, mountains, unique cultures, big cities, technology, architecture, linguistic diversity, easy travel, top-notch public transport, affordable

Weaknesses - Distrust towards foreigners, insolation, overly rigid and conservative social structures, workaholism

Europe

Strengths - Safety, security, extremely easy travel, culture, thousands of years of history, public transport, big cities, progressiveness, mountains, healthy work-life balance, safety net, social services, beaches

Weaknesses - Pretentiousness, rude people, cuisine

Oceania

Strengths - Amazing climate, outdoorsy activities, beaches, safety, stability

Weaknesses - Too isolated from everything
Unstable? Do you mean unpredictable and/or big swings from one season to another?
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Old 09-19-2017, 09:10 PM
 
Location: Gatineau, Québec
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Unstable? Do you mean unpredictable and/or big swings from one season to another?
Hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, etc.?
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Old 09-19-2017, 09:12 PM
 
Location: Gatineau, Québec
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Only focusing on Europe, Asia exclusively. The only Continents that I believe in deep down with real authentic cultural anthropology native roots. Exactly equal preference for each identification scale with tons of value on each side of the continuum spectrum.

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Africa does not have real authentic cultural anthropology native roots? It's where humanity began.
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