How would you introduce your country?

[nikolay_BG]

Lol, no need to be aggressive indeed, but it was very rude saying Turkey has no culture. That's just rude imo.

A country's culture does not depend on something that is invented there. Sorry Nikolay, maybe you are right about the computer, answering machine, yoghurt, but even if it was invented in your coutry, your country has played a very little role in the development of these things .... your inventor of the computer didn't even live in Bulgaria :?. My yoghurt is French, my computer is American & my anwering machine is Finnish... so giving inventions is not introducing your country. I can also say: medicine has begun in Belgium (Vesalius), cartography also (Mercator) and so on. But that's not introducing my country, because my country is not known for medicine (an exception maybe: Janssen Farmaceutics) or cartography. My country is famous for its beer, chocolate, French fries (yeah, sounds stupid, but Belgium is known for French fries) & waffles!

You eat french youghurt, cause you haven`t tried bulgarian one. My moms youghurt is way better then Danone.

Speaking for the turkish culture, what in Turkey today is originally turkic? I can tell you what - only their language. Even their genes aren`t turkic

 

[vatroslav_cro]

I cannot believe this......really can't!

 

[goktengri]

Speaking for the turkish culture, what in Turkey today is originally turkic? I can tell you what - only their language. Even their genes aren`t turkic

Speak to yourself, I'm a Turk dude. That's what I feel at least. But it's uncertain what you are

 

[goktengri]

Because we were the first country to industrialise and so we had to discover the things ourselves? That's why China and India have such an easy ride today, it's all on their plate for them with no effort on their part at all!
But go on, I bet it's something bad . Slaves or something? Or is it just because we're absolutely fantastically amazing?

My notes from teacher's explanations:

- Britain is a island country. So they had stayed away from feudalism fights, wars, sect fights etc.
- There had already been a constitutional monarchy order in Britain. This order protects Property rights, individual rights and freedoms. Briefly, it was a free area for explorers.
- Britan was the strongest colonial empire. It supplied raw materials from its big colonies and its colonies provided a broad market for Britain. It was an important advantage against others.
- It had rich underground resources for industrial requirements.
- Strong British navies and merchant marines made transportation easy.
- Britain had already been a leader in weaving since Renaissance.
- It was the economical center of the world. It was developed in stock market and banking in contradistinction to others.

 

[seb89]

You eat french youghurt, cause you haven`t tried bulgarian one. My moms youghurt is way better then Danone.

Speaking for the turkish culture, what in Turkey today is originally turkic? I can tell you what - only their language. Even their genes aren`t turkic

I gave you a clear answer in my previous post. I was hoping you understood, but you definitely didn't.

Oh yeah, stop being racistic towards Turkish people. Especially when you are complaining about the West-European people being racistic towards Bulgaria.

 

[r3gg13]

No more bashing each other's culture, alright guys! Consider this as a general warning.

 

[vatroslav_cro]

No more bashing each other's culture, alright guys! Consider this as a general warning.

Right! And I, as an author of this thread, order: STOP fighting and making quarrel! NOW! Stick to the topic!

Anybody else wants to say something about this? Maybe some people who didn't write here yet?

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

My notes from teacher's explanations:

- Britain is a island country. So they had stayed away from feudalism fights, wars, sect fights etc.
- There had already been a constitutional monarchy order in Britain. This order protects Property rights, individual rights and freedoms. Briefly, it was a free area for explorers.
- Britan was the strongest colonial empire. It supplied raw materials from its big colonies and its colonies provided a broad market for Britain. It was an important advantage against others.
- It had rich underground resources for industrial requirements.
- Strong British navies and merchant marines made transportation easy.
- Britain had already been a leader in weaving since Renaissance.
- It was the economical center of the world. It was developed in stock market and banking in contradistinction to others.

Oh it's interesting, I wish we did stuff like this in History. We just seem to do the same boring topics about the Nazis over and over again =/.
Your teacher is very right too. I think it's sad that our 'golden age' is over but have to live with it and change, we can get better but it'll just be different =)).

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

- Torpedo[/I]

Haha Adam read this (who was the "co-operator"): Interesting!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo

Oh, a link between UK and Croatia hey! I had no idea that he had lived along the Adriatic.

 

[vatroslav_cro]

Oh, a link between UK and Croatia hey! I had no idea that he had lived along the Adriatic.

Haha, yes, he had! I didn't know it too, until recently. OK, he lived in Venice, that's why his name was Giovanni Lupis, it would be Ivan Lupis in Croatian....same case like Fausto Veranzio (Faust Vrančić - modern parachute inventor)

 

[nikolay_BG]

No more bashing each other's culture, alright guys! Consider this as a general warning.

I believe you are right.

 

[Yamarus]

Oh it's interesting, I wish we did stuff like this in History. We just seem to do the same boring topics about the Nazis over and over again =/.

Being obsessed with World War 2 is part of British identity. xD And thinking this is still the Victorian Age.

Just making fun of you

 

[Grinch]

We should ignore Nikolay, he always finds a way to insult Turks. It's impossible to discuss properly with a racist person.

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

Being obsessed with World War 2 is part of British identity. xD And thinking this is still the Victorian Age.

Just making fun of you

Heeyyy!!
Actually if it was about WW2 it would be interesting but it's about German domestic issues under the Nazis... . Im sure for a German person it would be interesting but I do prefer to learn about something that actually involved my country. I expect it to get better though once I go to Uni, I'll do more interesting things .

 

[Yamarus]

Actually if it was about WW2 it would be interesting but it's about German domestic issues under the Nazis... . Im sure for a German person it would be interesting but I do prefer to learn about something that actually involved my country.

Well, I for one find that very interesting. Do you make use of W.S. Allen's excellent book "The Nazi Seizure of Power"? It's just fascinating. And I think it's something relevant to anyone in Europe, not Germany alone.

 

[goktengri]

Heeyyy!!
Actually if it was about WW2 it would be interesting but it's about German domestic issues under the Nazis... . Im sure for a German person it would be interesting but I do prefer to learn about something that actually involved my country. I expect it to get better though once I go to Uni, I'll do more interesting things .

What can I do ? We learn the full period of WW2 and there are not much things about my country but I still love it. People adore the tactics of our president of time that aimed to keep Turkey away from the war. While Nazis were dominating Europe, he signed a peace treaty with them, but after Soviets had entered Berlin, he declared a war against Axis

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

Well, I for one find that very interesting. Do you make use of W.S. Allen's excellent book "The Nazi Seizure of Power"? It's just fascinating. And I think it's something relevant to anyone in Europe, not Germany alone.

It might be interesting but when you've literally read your brains out about the topic in order to complete coursework, it looses its charm rapidly! It is relevant but there are many other things that have happened in history that have a much bigger impact on my life today, like the actual war itself.

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

What can I do ? We learn the full period of WW2 and there are not much things about my country but I still love it. People adore the tactics of our president of time that aimed to keep Turkey away from the war. While Nazis were dominating Europe, he signed a peace treaty with them, but after Soviets had entered Berlin, he declared a war against Axis

The topics we did earlier at school (when I was like 14 and under) were interesting; Slavery, American Civil War, the British Empire, Jack the Ripper, the Tudors, the Egyptians. That's my kind of history - the Russian Revolution and Hitler's Plots dont entice me! If it is to be about domestic situation at WW2, then Id prefer to learn about what people did in the United Kingdom like the women, Sir Winston, men who stayed back, the children evacuated, rather than about Germany, it's something I can relate to more.

 

[Yamarus]

The topics we did earlier at school (when I was like 14 and under) were interesting; Slavery, American Civil War, the British Empire, Jack the Ripper, the Tudors, the Egyptians. That's my kind of history - the Russian Revolution and Hitler's Plots dont entice me! If it is to be about domestic situation at WW2, then Id prefer to learn about what people did in the United Kingdom like the women, Sir Winston, men who stayed back, the children evacuated, rather than about Germany, it's something I can relate to more.

I can understand your point. However, I think the idea is to broaden your perspectives on the war and escape the one-sided national perspective. IMO, it's positive because you're not going to investigate the domestic situation of Germany in the years preceding WW2 on your own. On the other hand, documentaries and books about the British domestic situation in World War Two are ubiquitous - the BBC runs WW2 documentaries like it's still the most important topic ever - and you can learn that very easily on your own. You see what I mean?

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

I can understand your point. However, I think the idea is to broaden your perspectives on the war and escape the one-sided national perspective. IMO, it's positive because you're not going to investigate the domestic situation of Germany in the years preceding WW2 on your own. On the other hand, documentaries and books about the British domestic situation in World War Two are ubiquitous - the BBC runs WW2 documentaries like it's still the most important topic ever - and you can learn that very easily on your own. You see what I mean?

Well I dont want to sound like I dont care about the German people but I just dont think it has the biggest relevance to myself. If we're talking about WW2, then of course what happened to them is important, but I dont think it should be a whole topic for somebody in another country, particularly when we had a great struggle of our own. What happened in the Holocaust and the soldiers of Germany is relevant, but the way in which Hitler put out propaganda through the 'people's receiver' radio, established Volkswagen, built motorways, had 1 Gestapo informer per thousands of people, I struggle to see the relevance, even if we are trying to broaden our prospectives. The same goes for the Russian Revolution, the things that happened were terrible, and they have relevance to Russian people, but not to me.
For me it's more important to learn about our own history first, and then international history in which the UK was involved somehow or is particularly important (like the Holocaust, civil rights, etc). I get what you mean about that it is easy to find out about what happened to Britain but I still think that it would be better to do things that are more relevant and lets face it more interesting. My topics for A-level were British Politics from 1900 to 1930, Hitler's control of the German People, the Russian Revolution and American Civil Rights. The History Department at my college was pretty dire though I think, if I wasnt interested personally then I would have been put off for life! Like I said it used to be really good and interesting before, that's why it disappointed me so much .