Re:An ode to that “coffee friend”
by The_Colonel on Thursday October 27, 2022 @03:53AM
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Europe is actually 750 million. EU != Europe (EU had ~500 million before brexit)
Yes, and if you include the Russian bits the size comparison changes considerably.
In my experience, when non-Europeans say “Europe” they mean something like “the union of the EU and the EEA and the UK”. They probably exclude Russia and a few of the Russian-adjacent states, and if they think of Iceland, they include the part on the North American plate as well as the Eurasian plate.
“From my POV, the school social structure in USA seems very […]”
I agree that it’s harder to generalize over all of Europe.
FYI, the US and Europe are roughly the same population and size (ignoring, as ever, poor Alaska) — ~350 million vs ~500 million, and ~8 million square miles vs ~5 million square miles.
While the US is considerably more culturally homogeneous than Europe, it is also quite hard to generalize across the United States.