imagine thinking that Europe wasn't colonized (over and over and over)https://twitter.com/decolonialatlas/status/1218905463670087680 …
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3/ laughs in Welsh / Scottish / Flemish ... https://twitter.com/TheAgeofShoddy/status/1219025381627330560 …
4/ Look at any linguistic map of Europe. The exact location of any border is a matter of diplomatic negotiation, not actually slicing up Francophones on one side and German speakers on the other (or what have you). There are amorphous blobs everywhere.
You could keep a mapmaker busy for a while just drawing maps of all the times Poland has been repartitioned. Or tracing the ebb and flow of borders in the Balkans.
My point is that African and Middle Eastern nations were frequently constructed in an almost entirely arbitrary manner, while the present borders of Europe have been formed through a long and extensive process of warfare and state-building...
...that isn't remotely comparable to the scramble for Africa or partition of the Ottoman Empire
3/ Yeah you're right there are very few examples outside of Germany (1871), the Division of Polan (1939), Annexation of Latvia as an SSR (1940), Lithuania SSR (1940), Estonian SSR (1940, creation of East Germany (1949), creation of West Germany (1949), ahttps://twitter.com/TheEmeraldDrake/status/1219031123512049664 …
4/ and I'm just going to skip over the creation of Yugoslavia after WWII and the partition of the Ottoman Empire by the victorious powers at the end of WWI, the redrawing of Poland's borders at the end of WWII ...
bets on whether or not this person has ever heard the name "East Prussia"
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