Re:Why U.S. Women Are Leaving Jobs Behind
by Dewie on Saturday December 13, 2014 @08:28AM
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> Sure, the European Union is not Europe, but that's like saying "America is not the US, it's the whole continent" (that is, correct, but nobody cares, people will still use the name).
I think that is a bad comparison. When anyone says "America", they almost always mean "USA". There are also a lot fewer cases in which most people want to talk about the Americas as a whole, and each continent tends to be denoted by South- and North-. "Europe", on the other hand, seems to always refer to the whole continent (people can disagree about where the Easternmost point is, but other than that the usage of the word is very crisp). I don't see how conflating the EU and Europe is appropriate at all, and I haven't seen much of it.
Re:Why U.S. Women Are Leaving Jobs Behind
by coldtea on Saturday December 13, 2014 @03:12PM
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>I think that is a bad comparison. When anyone says "America", they almost always mean "USA". There are also a lot fewer cases in which most people want to talk about the Americas as a whole
Perhaps that's a bias from being in the USA? In Latin America it's far more often to want to talk about Americas as a whole (or about North/South America as a whole).
There IS a place called the European Union, which tries to unify things in those regards though. Sure, the European Union is not Europe, but that's like saying "America is not the US, it's the whole continent" (that is, correct, but nobody cares, people will still use the name).
>Europe has countries the size of a few football fields. It has large, thinly populated countries, small, densely populated countries and everything in between.
So, sort of like the states? New Hampshire is not really the size or population of Texas or California. And not all of them have the same rates and policies.
Besides, he did gave listings and talked individually about different european countries.
It's not that big of a stretch to then check the aggregate, and speak of how "Europe" is doing. The European Comission does exactly this all the time.