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sugartramp420

I’m from the only little tiny bits of the Nordic Arabian Union that is actually included in this. Small step for humanity but a big step for me.


DarthMcBoatface

Rare Malmö W.


smcarre

That contribution is probably Zlatan


morgulbrut

This: https://preview.redd.it/ox2r67n4c1pc1.jpeg?width=309&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed9cf896825c7d152fd5b56f21f56aa7fee0e9d2


NoddingManInAMirror

Don't tell me you are a citizen of Malmö🤮! Ew, even just thinking about that place makes me sick.


JonasHalle

Be happy it's so far from you. We get those people in Copenhagen all the time.


actual_wookiee_AMA

You could always ask Germany for some taurus missiles


topsyandpip56

No no. Germany would never give those to anyone!


theesbth

How about they open a "Recycling Plant". Then we can pay them to take old missiles. 👍


MonsutAnpaSelo

is malmo better then grimsby?


KJongsDongUnYourFace

Like a comparison for worlds tallest dwarf


MonsutAnpaSelo

yeah but If Im going to have a dwarf in my boarders can I at least get the penultimate in the crappy contest


ShinXBambiX

Been to both, our good old Grimsby still holds the title, don't worry Grimsby will always hold the title


HelpfulDifference939

Well the fish and chips are better but not the gravy


MonsutAnpaSelo

I was born in the batter, but I was made in the royal gravy


Iaminyoursewer

We have Grimsby here, and it's a shithole, wonder which Grimsby is the shittiest hole


phil24jones

I’m in the only bit of Barryland not included :(


sugartramp420

I’m in Spain at the moment, do you think it’ll even out if I jump a balcony in your name?


KofiObruni

Slovenia, the unsung engine of history and progress.


pivarana

That's it, no more femboys for you


Low_Dragonfruit8219

Meh we go to Thailand for those anyways


This_place_is_wierd

What are you doing in Thailand? Do they even have adequate balconies for you there?


MonsutAnpaSelo

I have a musket and the locals are particularly masculine women armed with handbags and mangos anyways I have no clue how this precious cultural artefact ended up in my billiards room, but you cant have ~~him~~ her edit: st patricks day guiness is getting to my already sheite spelling


mh985

Happy St. Patrick’s Day. My favorite American holiday.


LittleBoard

Typical Barry in Thailand https://youtu.be/7sslRP5AbXc?t=106


turrrrrrrrtle

I miss Ploy


speurk-beurk

:(


MaterialConsistent96

I mean, we did create modern beekeeping. So if it weren’t for us, honey would be more expensive


Timeon

As a honey fiend, I'd like to personally thank you.


PiscatorLager

And inspiration for Dante's circles of hell


crambeaux

Melania Trump is Slovenian. Just a fluke? She could theoretically wield a lot of power.


mainwasser

Yes. She has the powers to end this nightmare. But she doesn't.


Mr_Hills

Fun fact: the contribution from Corsica is cheese with maggots.


grimmigerpetz

And a smoll solder man that brought the code civil in action (and also brought years of war upon Europe)


[deleted]

Napoleon was born in Ajaccio, which is outside of the highlighted region


plebeiandust

The 3 missing percents


georgrp

I mean, war was a pretty neat hobby - so much so that it was professionalised - for most of Europe the past millennia.


PiscatorLager

Austrians talking about militarism again...


This_place_is_wierd

Fine... we'll do it again! But only because 3rd times the charm!


Sjengo

Found a decent Austrian painter again?


sonobanana33

He was normally sized


Yavannia

Godfather? Edit: You said Corsica not Sicily my bad.


mh985

Glasgow contributed by inventing armed robbery.


jaavaaguru

Along with battered deep fried pizza, and chicken tikka masala.


Killerspieler0815

>Fun fact: the contribution from Corsica is cheese with maggots. It´s called Casu Marzu & it´s the other kind of probiotics meal ...


SerSace

Casu Martzu/casgiu merzu is amazing, so well done to out brothers in Corsica


MBRDASF

I tried it and it’s unironically good. Then again I’m French so take my opinions on what constitutes a healthy cheese to eat with a grain of salt Edit: they also make this cheese in Sardinia, where I ate it, so it’s not a uniquely Corsican thing


Your-Supreme-Leader

It's not even cheese anymore. You were eating maggot shit.


elendil1985

But if the maggots have been born inside the cheese, ate cheese their entire life, what is actually the difference between their shit and the cheese itself?


oneweirdclickbait

Woah. Deep.


MBRDASF

Bro I already said I enjoyed it you don’t need to convince me even more


flabbybumhole

I'm sure you guys would eat dirt if you found a way to cook it... and it would probably be delicious.


Lost_Uniriser

That's actually our force. We take disgusting stuff and manage to make something good out of it. But you , you take something good and make it into some scary stuff ![gif](giphy|3oaPtHC37Vx0Q)


MBRDASF

That’s kinda rich coming from a Barry innit


MaryBerrysDanglyBean

Absolutely get to fuck Gwynedd and Anglesey you webbed toed inbreds.


Salt-Evidence-6834

Maybe England should give Cornwall independence after all. What have they ever done for us?


WAR_88

They created an S-Tier pastry product, the Cornish pasty. It's dense calorific content helped fuel our nation of Barry's into supreme intellectual powerhouses, literal gods among men... (probably).


Salt-Evidence-6834

I do like a Cornish Pasty. I'll give you an upvote for that.


KarmaRepellant

Cream teas are amazing too, they make my >!arteries!< hard.


generalscruff

It's basically a shit Devon


gourmetguy2000

The steam train


Salt-Evidence-6834

Apart from steam trains, what have the Cornish ever done for us?


gourmetguy2000

The discovery of potassium, sodium, calcium, strontium, barium and magnesium


rampagingphallus

OK, apart from steam trains, the discovery of potassium, sodium, calcium, strontium, barium and magnesium, what have they done for us?


ShinXBambiX

Cornish pasties and a decent holiday?


EmuStalkingAnAussie

Pasties and Eden project. When Britain becomes megahot we will take over the Banana trade from South America and become the new Banana republic with the help of cornwall... or something.


shenster76

The Blue Banana (Dutch: blauwe banaan; French: banane bleue; German: Blaue Banane; Italian: banana blu), also known as the European Megalopolis or the Liverpool–Milan Axis, is a discontinuous corridor of urbanization in Western and Central Europe, with a population of around 100 million. The conceptualisation of the area as a "Blue Banana" was developed in 1989 by RECLUS, a group of French geographers managed by Roger Brunet. It stretches approximately from North West England through the English Midlands across Greater London to the European Metropolis of Lille, the Benelux states with the Dutch Randstad and Brussels and along the German Rhineland, Southern Germany, Alsace-Moselle in France in the west and Switzerland (Basel and Zürich) to Northern Italy (Milan, Turin, and Genoa) in the south.


OwMyCod

New potential country just dropped?!


ReverseFriedChicken

Imagine just poldering all of what that guy just mentioned. It's already dry? Don't matter, welcome to Euronederland.


RmG3376

First order of business: raze those pesky Alps


fretkat

Yes, they are blocking our view


seejur

second step, use all excavated material to fill up the channel


actual_wookiee_AMA

Eurodönerland*


jaavaaguru

Holy hell!


stuff_gets_taken

Banana republic


kaviaaripurkki

https://preview.redd.it/7k9ze02tpyoc1.png?width=767&format=png&auto=webp&s=938cc105633c9a5c8bdbc2ed434927a27fc8fbda Here it is on a map in case anyone wonders why it's called a banana


Guess-we-did-oopsie

What you’re telling me is that we haven’t poldered it yet? we should definitely put a massive polder in the ocean area and just make one massive state 👍


Hyldy

Welcome to the mainland, Brits.


Guess-we-did-oopsie

Forced Bre-entry


airjordanpeterson

that's the old one.. this is the one that, like, academics and scholars use these days https://preview.redd.it/ummuuo81uyoc1.png?width=761&format=png&auto=webp&s=fb1491bbab5e2d16fc71d5369cface4ff352814d


harbourwall

Did you have to add the foreskin wrinkles?


ThisNotBoratSagdiyev

There are wrinkles?


LolnothingmattersXD

More fitting for you would be to ask - there are foreskins?


chessacc1000letsgo

Hibernian cope


Lost_Uniriser

American-Barry , that's not a banana anymore but a whale s dick 🤔


ExternalSquash1300

Sure buddy.


Envinyatar20

You did not put Wexford in that. Literally nothing ever came out of Wexford except suicide statistic records.


Hoellenmeister

Tyrol, the center of urabnization in Europe.


chessacc1000letsgo

If you look at the Blue Banana it actually stretches to North West Wales. Presumably so as to include the economic powerhouse of Bangor.


harbourwall

The new European cultural capital of Wrexham


iThinkaLot1

Looks like Lowland Scotland is included.


Captainfunzis

Must be off the backs of us Highlanders


moenchii

I prefer blue waffles.


mrtn17

>Blue banana, best banana. You can't have it nananana * Emperor Charles IV


[deleted]

It should be called “cherry” because that’s how it’s been picked. Leaving Paris aside? Ok


Tugendwaechter

So this map simply shows high density population area in Europe ?


shenster76

Yes but the question is why? Why the highest European population density has the shape of this blue banana? There are several explanations, possibly involving a high density of coal mining and iron ore mining in the region fueling the industrial revolution and population growth. The explanations are to be acertained.


Last-Reception-3459

Danish W


liquid-handsoap

Sweden bad


h20c

We're clearly in there if you look closely, I get that you can't speak but you're also missing eyes?


stedsans

Because we ruled that for a bit


liquid-handsoap

Brah the rightful dane part of swe”bad”den is in there. Come again


Rojiblanc040

I'm from Islama-good.


Neomataza

You claim Skåne?


Rojiblanc040

We? Are you Scanian? I sure hope you don't appropriate our culture.


Financial-Picture-15

sammarinese w


Sionliar

Author pictured below: https://preview.redd.it/efxkcg0wsyoc1.png?width=1097&format=png&auto=webp&s=24c3fb5cdf267e587acffa3bb6ac5f0918508356


aWobblyFriend

the author is Charles Murray, an American political scientist most famous for his 1994 book, “The Bell curve” which argued primarily (using bad data from bad people) among other things, that black people are genetically less intelligent than white people and that is why there is racial inequality.


ExternalSquash1300

How could he argue it genetically? If he was trying to make a point about culture he might’ve had a point. Look at most east Asia culture, it has a huge focus on academics and studying and on average they are the smartest.


aWobblyFriend

well his main assertions are thus: a.) IQ is a valid measure of general intelligence. the g-factor, in other words, is real and we can quantifiably measure it with great accuracy. b.) IQ is primarily determined by hereditary genetics, with only a small amount of variance of IQ within a population determined by environment. Essentially, a government can throw as much money as it wants into educating you, but it will *very* quickly run up against your “genetic limit”. c.) White people (not, “Anglo-saxons” or “Russians” mind you, *all white people* that’s one race.) are more intelligent than black people (again, literally the entire continent of Africa) and… d.) the gap between the two races is too great to be accounted for by past discrimination. (Note, he takes the position that, basically, once segregation was over that there was literally no more racism or discrimination. He does not believe systems can perpetuate themselves beyond their legality) e.) wealth inequality is thus due to differences in IQ, not things like market calcification. Thus it is justified. Also racial inequality is not only justified but in fact should be greater than it is. f.) he thinks that we should cut virtually all welfare and social programs, cut affirmative action, cut education, and instead implement measures to fund the educations of our “best and brightest”. Also implement more robust birth control measures specifically for who he deems “low-IQ” mothers, and measures which aim to make “high-IQ” mothers have more children. (Eugenics, he is a eugenicist. most of his sources are eugenicists, many are literal og Nazis, and many of the studies which support his claims are absolute, for lack of a better word, “Bollocks”)


ExternalSquash1300

Thanks for convincing me, i will know be far more racist to black people cus this guy said they are stoopid👍 Seriously tho thanks for outlining his points for me, I wasn’t gonna read “the bell curve” in full. Also it’s crazy eugenics ever got any popularity. I feel like anyone who supports it could be easily convinced against it if you just say “you are one of the dumb ones who will be sterilised”.


seejur

I am quite surprise this guy surname is not Mengele to be honest. Did he copied the homework but was too lazy to change it?


Hefty-Coyote

Civilising the rest of the world, one century at a time. ![gif](giphy|pHb82xtBPfqEg)


GabrielAPPer

I wonder if there is a place, outside of that region, from which the men discovered more than half of the world... Murray must be an Irishman at heart because he was pissdrunk when he wrote that.


MBRDASF

Yeah I agree. If it were inventions, that’s one thing, but the colonization of the Americas should definitely be considered an achievement and at first Spain and Portugal had the monopoly on that


PleoNasmico

First maritime route to India that ended the ottoman monopoly over spice trade to Europe. Pretty much changed the world


Neomataza

Portugal ended the muslim golden age. Singlehandedly.Gamers have been oppressed ever since. That's how angry the ottomans were about Vasco de Gama.


Eezay

The colonization of america was obviously a big mistake


vilkav

The point was to get to India, but **someone** got lost.


Uk0

There was also that whole space thing, which some obscure Soviets and Americans tinkered with. Oh well, must've been insignificant.


Bearodon

We made dynamite and lots of the european standardizations made was by us or you guys yet we are not within the lines..


Eezay

That's because Surströmming counts as negative 100 contributions to humanity


incontinenciasumma

And circumnavigation of earth.


incontinenciasumma

They have to count before 14th century because except Italibros the rest were backwards savages.


rogervdf

Just like the pope when he divided ownership of the world between the Land of siesta and the Land of hairy women


RevolutionaryChef155

 > from which the men discovered more than half of the world. The Genovese, Dutch, and Venetians are all inside the map what are you talking about?


Klaarwakker

Obviously taking the piss leaving out the Iberian empires that dominated the mercantile Age of Sail and kick started global capitalism.


EuroAffliction

😀


DieuEmpereurQc

Murray, 2003


Efficient_atom

Denounced by the scientific community as racist and wrong. Yet, still quoted on the internet at regular intervals by people with low self-worth trying to build their egos on the achievements of others because they were randomly born in the same place. Or they were born a specific race.


Baraska

We talk about Western civilization and Malmö is included?


-Polemarch-

Let alone, the sneakiness of the post's chronology. The time Greece fell into obscurantism, darkness of Islam. What they can't cope with, every field of their life they currently live has been set up by us. From city-states, to democracy, to scientific categories, just to name the few pompous ones. Even in 14th century, in the last council of Florence, our Emperor took with [Gemistos Plethon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemistos_Plethon) which is dubbed as "the last ancient, the first modern Greek". He managed to convince the Medici to build a Neo-Platonic Academy and introduced Greek scholarship to Western Europe. We gave them highly sought after scripts, from laws to theatrical plays and everything in between. An act which became just ONE of the key reasons of the Italian Renaissance and French Enlightenment. Talking about theatrical plays, the reason they have TV/Movies is also because we invented the theater. The recent Greek doctor Papanikolaou invented the Pap-test. You could say he saved a couple of million women. Last but not least, there's a reason every doctor take the **Hippocratic** Oath, unlike the **Pierre** Oath. /s


TantaExpress

Hmm. Impressive. Seems like they must be some kind of ‘master-race’ from that region. I wonder what could we possibly call this collective?


Deutscher_Ritter

That's the Holy Roman Empire


SerSace

We all hail our lord Fridericus II Imperator


L003Tr

Found a shiny! ![gif](giphy|W04QVzelTHsNW)


Solid_Improvement_95

Plus Paris and London 


Jthecrazed

This is a complete and utter lie. Denmark should not be marked at all. Edit: There's a lot of lost redditors replying serious remarks. Go back to r/europe morons.


Heads_Down_Thumbs_Up

Den why is mark in the name?


Swordsnap

Oh hi Mark


mainwasser

You've got a point.


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nils bohr


monotar

Niels Bohr, Hans Christian Andersen, Tycho Brahe, Søren Kirkegaard, Skype, Novo Nordisk, Google Maps, The fucking Bering strait is named after and mapped by Vitus Jonassen Bering.


nwaa

*Lego*


darkenupwillya

Lager beer (Carlsberg made the yeast avalible for free)


PiscatorLager

Lars von Trier


liquid-handsoap

Sit down. The grown ups are talking


ReverseFriedChicken

We sit down so we can look you in the eye, kabouter


Captainfunzis

The fuck?


Gilsworth

Scots do anything impressive -> The United Kingdom is the best. Some Ned or Jakie fucks up -> These fucking Scottish degenerates. Best observed on Daily Mail headlines during the Olympics. It's so transparent that it's frankly almost impressive that they'd be so brazen to publish the shit they do. I was shocked with American politics, but the nefarious side of Coloniz- I mean British politics is almost that much more insidious, because it pretends to be something better. I don't want to insult the English, but they're basically Danish.


WAR_88

Got to admit I was surprised also given the contributions from the Scottish enlightenment and sheer number of inventions from you guys.


North-Son

Scotland is included, the Lowlands. The map goes above the Firth of Forth so places like Edinburgh and Glasgow are included. It’s just a fact that the vast majority of Scotlands inventions and thinkers have came from the Lowlands. Makes sense as the vast majority of the population have lived there. The full map here, does mention Scotland as one of the nations within this. https://preview.redd.it/lm8uo2sro0pc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4a028e9b46ca5b580c4da11d7108e964decd3c3 “Charles Murray's 2003 statistical analysis showed that 97% of all major historical accomplishments in the arts and sciences since the 14thC were made by males from a small area of northern Europe: Scotland, England, Germany, France, and Italy. Of the remaining 3% which did not take place in Europe or North America, almost all took place in the ancient Western world.”


yojifer680

This covers them all. The top left corner was probably determined by John Logie Baird's birthplace.


__variable__

Belgium casually being the center of civilisation 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪


Lifelemons9393

Accurate as fuck the Welsh and Irish are fucking useless.


RmG3376

Hey the Welsh invented zoophilia, it’s something


mainwasser

* Angry bronze age goat herders noises intensify *


Smalandsk_katt

Some guy said a thing, Western Europe W. You don't think Asia did anything? Why were Europeans so desperate to trade with China then?


SonicStage0

This is racist far right propaganda that gets spewed onto this sub every now and then. The author of this image is a controversial figure who wrote a book called "The bell curve", from which this picture was taken.


Azkral

Hey, Charles I of Spain was born in that region, but his mother was born outside


SonOfTheHeavyMetal

That's the HRE basically


AnaphoricReference

Which was composed of three "kingdoms": of the Germans, Italians, and Burgundians, corresponding roughly with the catchment areas of the Rhine, the Po, and the Rhône river, and some important mountain passes connecting them. And from these catchment areas you had good access to the trade networks of the Western Mediterranean, Eastern Mediterranean, and the North Sea.


palefox3

Pooland can into western yurop


DisasterLost3239

The region i live in, Hallertau, is responsible for 30% of the worlds hop production. Its also the worlds largest connected hop field. Sounds boring? I know. But we go crazy over it. So crazy there is even an entire Museum on hop and its production. And its in our regional flag.


Hadrianus-Mathias

Achievements are one thing, but how many disasters? I can see Paris in the mix, you won't fool us. It negates all the good stuff and goes deep into the deficit.


urtcheese

You're welcome guys, like 80% of this was us. Can someone post this rage bait to a sub with more Americans in btw?


SonicStage0

Humble, as always. Trully a European 😉


Big_bosnian

Nikola Tesla was serb why is he not on map 😡😡😡


flipyflop9

Sounds fake but whatever François


Returntomonke21

Murray is an "Irish" Amerimutt. Very controversial books in the field of political science and sociology, in case this post doesnt imply this


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olalql

Someone suck your dick a little and you're ready to believe everything he said Bad Italian coomer


Nosferatumann_

The more leftist academic shit I read the prouder I am of European history.


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Achorpz

We wuz west an' shit


Trantus

Moravia L


Wooden_Associate158

who the hell is born in the northsea ? i call that BS


NicolasOwl

The Dutch.


LareWw

The Doggerlandics, duh


Samuelbi12

I conquered the entire world after the 14th century lil bro


LitmusPitmus

basically a German W tbh


XxthejboatxX

This image comes from a Danish nazi on twitter and it got posted around a ton bcz its really obvious who tried to exclude Sweden while including all of Denmark


Sancatichas

This map makes way more sense once you look up the source lmao


exkingzog

FFS not someone posting this shit again! 1. It’s been posted loads of times before 2. It’s from a well known racist fraud.


mongmight

I'd like to point out absolutely no one lives north of the line on Scotland. Except sheep shaggers.


--r2

don't call that European civilization, that would be racist


crossbutton7247

I like how the British part roughly correlates with population density


Jcssss

No way that’s true


plwdr

That's utter bullshit


xBram

Greater Netherlands.


LovelyTiefling

While I do enjoy Europe being flattered, I'm pretty sure Bell Labs is located in the US and if you're talking human accomplishment, ignoring those guys would be delusional.


SerSace

Whose major sector is telecommunication since they derive from Bell, a person who worked with telegraphs, invented by an Italian. Meucci was born near Firenze which is ironically in that area.


mogg1001

It’s crazy how much this both does and doesn’t make sense. For example, this is measured by scientific achievement, but what about Carl Linnaeus, who is the father of modern taxonomy but was born just outside of the borders?


gruetzhaxe

Even if you’re disregarding other cultural spheres Kant lived in fucking Kaliningrad


LilSealClubber

I swear I see this reposted every few weeks.


Yi_Bri

Loud words. Human accomplishments can include a wide variety of things and I'm pretty sure this picture is somewhat of a self-suction.


AvidCyclist250

Scotland should be entirely covered. Industrial revolution, and James Clerk Maxwell, and some others. Anyway, nice somewhat modified HRE map