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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
Because I was interested in the members posting from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Spain, Italy, etc.......not just from "Europe".
Those are all different countries with different cultures.....  |
As I said, I realize why continents is too vague and separating by countries is a better choice, though mixing England, Scotland, Wales and Spain/Italy is like apples and a fruit salad.
I think it's best if there's United Kingdom
[of Great Britain and Northern Ireland] which includes of course England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales that now appear separately.
If one starts to differentiate within UK and specify for example Wales or England,
one could do the same with other countries, like Spain and it's autonomous communities and make a difference between Catalonia, Andalusia and Basque -- they even have different languages! Then the same could be applied through other countries: one could list all the states in the US, then in order to be fair move to yet another country and.... things get messy.
On a board with members from so many different countries I feel it's best we stick with the basics.
In the end, it makes no difference to me how UK or any other country is presented here. I am still impressed there is Croatia.
