Wow. Europe is tiny / Africa is huge.

[x z]

Im sure everyone already knows this, but the mental programming the world has done to overinflate Euro's not only size and grandeur, but influence too is crazy. The way the whole world works, and the history of the world, all focused on such a tiny area. Their actions spoke louder than their collective words, which would otherws]ise not be heard.

This same overinflation has also led to the extreme undermining of Africa. It's the hugest place on earth, but people see it as a tiny 'country' and diminish any relevancy it has. With the way the world works, Africa's huge land is so beneficial, and lots of the worlds richest minerals occur their naturally. The way I see it, the world is gonna run out of finite resources soon, and Africa will not be in the same dilemma as them. Africas huge space helps it with density in population issues, which plagues tiny areas like Europe. Europes population is 750,000,000 and Africas is just over a billion, yet we have enough land to accommodate many people, whereas Euro doesnt - euro land mass is 9 million km^2 and Africa is 32 milion km^2. So its funny africa is always blamed for future overpopulation, when we would handle it better than anyone else

ba2 3ry

 

[Molotoff]

Russia?

 

[x z]

Im sure everyone already knows this, but the mental programming the world has done to overinflate Euro's not only size and grandeur, but influence too is crazy. The way the whole world works, and the history of the world, all focused on such a tiny area. Their actions spoke louder than their collective words, which would otherws]ise not be heard.

This same overinflation has also led to the extreme undermining of Africa. It's the hugest place on earth, but people see it as a tiny 'country' and diminish any relevancy it has. With the way the world works, Africa's huge land is so beneficial, and lots of the worlds richest minerals occur their naturally. The way I see it, the world is gonna run out of finite resources soon, and Africa will not be in the same dilemma as them. Africas huge space helps it with density in population issues, which plagues tiny areas like Europe. Europes population is 750,000,000 and Africas is just over a billion, yet we have enough land to accommodate many people, whereas Euro doesnt - euro land mass is 9 million km^2 and Africa is 32 milion km^2. So its funny africa is always blamed for future overpopulation, when we would handle it better than anyone else




ba2 3ry

(kinda offtopic, but look at somalilands area and compare it to how many euro nations it encompasses. this should show that independence isnt so radical of a thought, we are a huge region and you cant expect poor governance to be ale to tend to such large areas, maybe this is why euro can micromanage their people but huge african nations have little to no hold on a lot of areas in their own nation.)

 

[x z]

Russia?

thats 1 country.

and even then, they colonized to get tha group. many of its regions act as own nations with autonomy anyway, and the races differ immensely

 

[Apollo]

The Sahara is kind of a wasteland though while Europe has little of such unusable land.

 

[Somali Napolean]

Africa is the second largest continent what do you expect, every continent can fit in Africa except for Asia.

Europe and the west have been the focus for the last few centuries because it has been the most developed and geopolitically active regions. Africa historically hasn’t had as much of an effect on current affairs as Europe and the West.

Africa’s overpopulation issues are that their governments are incapable of using their resources and giving each individual the basic necessities for a decent life, it’s a reason why to this day thousands immigrate out of Africa. Africa’s overpopulation is linked to the potential humanity crisis as most of these people will be born into poverty further taxing the already weak and corrupt governments.

 

[Shmurda]

 

[Juke]

Europe isn't even a real geographic continent

 

[SOMALI GENERAL]

Europe isn't even a real geographic continent

The Greeks saw themselves as the gate of Europe since the ancient times & fought to keep the belligerent Asiatics/Persians out.

As Greek power rose, they became the "lords of Asia" when they defeated the Persian Empire.

 

[Juke]

The Greeks saw themselves as the gate of Europe since the ancient times & fought to keep the belligerent Asiatics/Persians out.

As Greek power rose, the became the "lords of Asia" when they defeated the Persian Empire.

Ancient Greeks were closer to the near east (Anatolia, Phoenicia) than other Europeans.

 

[SOMALI GENERAL]

Ancient Greeks were close to the near east (Anatolia, Phoenicia) than other Europeans.

The Ancient Greeks & Romans knew about the concept of continents (Europe, Asia & Africa), therefore they identified themselves as European. However, Ancient Greeks were ethnically & culturally very close to Anatolians.

As for the Phoenicians, the Greeks extensively traded & exchanged culture with them but never saw them as kin & viewed them as Asiatics. The Greeks only saw Romans, Anatolians as racial Kin & to a lesser extent other Europeans who they considered "Barbarians" culturally.

 

[Juke]

The Ancient Greeks & Romans knew about the concept of continents (Europe, Asia & Africa), therefore they identified themselves as European. However, Ancient Greeks were ethnically & culturally very close to Anatolians.

As for the Phoenicians, the Greeks extensively traded with them but never saw them as kin & viewed them as Asiatics. The Greeks only saw Romans, Anatolians as racial Kin & to a lesser extent other Europeans who they considered "Barbarians" culturally.

Ancient Greeks viewed Phoenicia as one of their forefathers. Europe is literally named after a Phoenician princess.

 

[Harad]

It may be that having a smaller space to live together has made Europe more competitive

 

[SOMALI GENERAL]

Ancient Greeks viewed Phoenicia as one of their forefathers. Europe is literally named after a Phoenician princess.

In Greek mythology Europa was the consort of Zeus & her name was Greek which derived from the old word Eurús.

However, this doesn't discount the fact the Ancient Greeks knew they belonged to a distinct continent of their own. The First Map of the world according to Anaximander (6th century BC):

Mind you Libya was an alternative name for Africa in the ancient times.