Stop Generalizing About Europe

Re:Stop Generalizing About Europe by eli_gottlieb on Friday December 28, 2012 @05:03AM (#4977161)

Heck, I know several people who have driven more than halfway across Canada, in Europe no-one who drove e.g. from Paris to Istanbul.

Abstract away the vast distances of road and think of it as nodes on a directed graph. How many nodes (ie: inhabited locations of distinct identity) did you pass through from source to destination? That's a kind sociocultural or even ecological distance you traveled, and it can actually be larger on a Paris-Istanbul trip than on a cross-Canadian trip.

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Re:Stop Generalizing About Europe by unconed on Saturday December 29, 2012 @02:36AM (#4981447)

Uh, how did you get "Paris-Instanbul is less diverse than cross-Canada" from my comment? I think I said the exact opposite.

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Re:Stop Generalizing About Europe by eli_gottlieb on Saturday December 29, 2012 @04:44AM (#4981629)

I was actually saying "Paris-Istanbul is more diverse than cross-Canada". North America has large distances between "significant nodes" on the map, Europe/Asia has smaller distances.

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Re:Stop Generalizing About Europe by unconed on Saturday December 29, 2012 @05:56AM (#4981752)

So you replied in agreement with a tortured graph theory analogy devoid of concrete ties to reality? I'm confused. Usually when people say "actually" they are correcting someone.

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