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:
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.