The article title is a bit of a misnomer because apparently they only surveyed western Europeans rather than people across Europe. But still it’s interesting.
These survey results appear in the article:
The article title is a bit of a misnomer because apparently they only surveyed western Europeans rather than people across Europe. But still it’s interesting.
These survey results appear in the article:
I don’t disagree with this graph but in different context you can also divide Europe in to western European countries and eastern European countries according to their alignment during the majority of the previous century. In that case, Bulgaria, Poland and the Baltic states all belong to the group of eastern European state. I think this is the context in which OP meant the fact that mainly western countries are surveyed. I often see headlines mentioning Europe or Europeans and only refer to the EU and it’s citizens, in the same ‘wrong’ way.
From my understanding, calling a person from Poland ‘Eastern European’ is basically akin to asking for a fight.
Europe doesn’t end at Russia’s border - it ends at the Ural Mountains, so even drawing a midpoint between Portugal in the West and the mountains in the East still puts Poland, Slovakia and firmly in the western half.
I mean, sure you could arbitrarily divide a region as you see fit; by that logic California and Arizona are technically part of ‘The South’, since they’re in the bottom 50% of the continental US - right?
I understand why Polish people are offended by calling them eastern-Europeans. We have a lot of polish immigrants here doing, I believe I know how they feel about it, but there is still plenty of media outlets both local and international who write about eastern and western europe as they did before the collapse of the Berlin Wall.