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Saruko ([info]morgyne) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-12-02 22:23:00
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Entry tags:lj

In Soviet Russia, X blanks Y!
I can has a gulag?


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[info]airawyn
2007-12-03 07:11 pm UTC (link)
Since when is Russia a "Western" nation?

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[info]nekoneko
2007-12-03 07:25 pm UTC (link)
Since it broke off and joined Antarctica and India floating around somewhere.

One of my friends didn't believe me when I told her Russia was part of Asia. Same with India. And said Antarctica was somewhere near the North Pole.

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[info]amymccabe
2007-12-03 09:18 pm UTC (link)
Your friend needs a map.

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[info]yosei
2007-12-03 11:24 pm UTC (link)
I never actually got an answer to which continent Russia belongs to. When I asked, they would say "Eurasia". I would say that's not one of the seven continents, and then they would mutter and send me back to my desk.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2007-12-05 08:36 am UTC (link)
Which we have always been at war with, do not forget.

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[info]kookaburra
2007-12-08 10:06 am UTC (link)
I do know that a Russian student in my college was very upset when the Asian Student Union denied her request to join.

I always thought of Russia as part of "Asia".

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[info]dragonfangirl
2007-12-03 11:50 pm UTC (link)
Russia has a great expanse of territory in Asia, but it's mostly empty land. For most of its history, the metropoles and centers of government have been centered in the western half, and they've always had far, far more interaction with other European powers than with any other Asian nations.

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[info]nekoneko
2007-12-03 11:54 pm UTC (link)
Interesting. I did not know that. Most of the history I've had centers around England, thanks to a World Cultures teacher that focused on it and my college not offering much else as a gen ed.

I am still pissed I never got to study The French Revolution.

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[info]solesakuma
2007-12-04 04:59 am UTC (link)
Random Geography anecdote:
So I'm a oral test, about Europe countries' and their capitals. The teacher asks some tought ones (the little not-countries, some Balkanic contries, etc.) and then she points at Russia. I stare at her. She stares back and tells me that yes, some people have got that one wrong. That's when I realized some people think we are on Mars.

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[info]solesakuma
2007-12-04 04:57 am UTC (link)
You beat me to it.

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[info]kaesa
2007-12-04 04:41 am UTC (link)
And said Antarctica was somewhere near the North Pole.

...

I'm sorry, I will be over here boggling.

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[info]blackjackrocket
2007-12-05 10:21 am UTC (link)
Isn't India considered a "subcontinent", though? Or was my middle school teacher wrong?

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[info]ruaha56
2007-12-09 07:21 pm UTC (link)
It is, indeed. The subcontinent consists of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan... and quite possibly Myanmar, I think.

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