Thread:Marina Moreau/@comment-681745-20130223102150/@comment-5959682-20130224113349

I actrually tend to criticise European perspective quite a lot, I have to admit :) On many occasion European perspective(s) are simply unreliable when it comes to the areas outside of Europe (Near East and Far East instead of western Asia and eastern Asia), because they tend to be Eurocentric, which is nit really acceptable in the era of both globalisation and global availability of education. Sometimes European perspectives are very conflicted, because in the Swedish language, the Baltic Sea is often called the Eastern Sea, and in the Finnish language, it is often called the Western Sea. Similarly, with European regions, as you probably know already: from Russian perspective a part of Russia are in "western Europe", and in the German perspective, a part of Germany is in "eastern Europe". Of course the European midpoint is in Belarus/Lithuania, so it neiter of them is right. Of course then there are cultural regions that take geographical names, like Central Europe and so on. This must be very confusing and it takes time to straight it out :)

This should be put in the global perspective a little bit, especially English, because it is a global language. Actually, the German president proposedrecently to make English the official EU language (de facto it is already): http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/22/german-president-pleads-britain-stay-eu

Talking about global perspective :)