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Listed below are comments made by honza12 between Thursday, 16th October 2008 and Wednesday, 27th May 2009.

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Czech mates 3:16pm on 27 May 2009 What is so weird about the bagpipe? I don't think it is an extreme PC not to call other's people culture "weird". How about "different" or "unusual" or something like that?

BTW I think it looked as a goat not as a sheep. And the Czech bagpipe has one advantage over the weird Scottish bagpipe - you can sing while playing. Well, maybe it is not such an advantage ...
Climate change plan under fire 3:38pm on 16 Oct 2008 to #20: No I do not find it offensive, why? It is a fact. Cyrillic was used in church context; but already by 1000 AD Old Church Slavonic was nearly completely replaced by Latin and thus Roman alphabet. The Czech language was always written in Roman alphabet.

But one does not classify countries based on scripts, I just listed it as one (I admit, marginal) example how the two worlds are different.

Geographically, from Warsaw, it is about 2600km to Ural Mtns. (Eastern boundary of Europe) and about 2000 km to Castlebar in Ireland. Prague is West of Vienna. Culturally, during the last 1000 years, Czech Lands were always part of the Western Europe, apart of the 40 years of Russian domination.

Calling those countries Eastern Europe simply puts them into the same category as Russia. I would just avoid the term, but on the other hand, if one wants to be rude to people in those countries, calling them Eastern Europe is a good start.

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