What comes to your mind when you think in this countries?

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LOL, at first I thought it's Churchill. :lol:

what do you think about palestinians ?
They have a though situation not having their own state. But I do not agree with the general Palestinian approach how to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - with violence and terrorism against civilians.

Palestine - Terrorism, Gaza, Rammalah, Arafat, Abu Mazen, Hashish, Keffiyeh, Kalashnikovs and Hookah
 
A exercise of honesty. I am not looking for any brainy analisis of what the countries actually are, but what comes to your mind when you think about those, without thinking much.


My list is:

1 -Argentina
2 -Brazil
3 -Chile
4 -Uruguay
5 -Colombia
6 -Mexico
7 -USA
8 -Canada
9 -Spain
10 -France
11 -Germany
12 -Austria
13 -Sweden
14 -Italy
15 -England
16 -Czech Republic
17 -Hungary
18 -Ukranie
19 -Rusia
20 -China
21 -Japan
22 -Saudi Arabia
23 -Lebanon
24 -South afrika
25 -Israel
26 -Australia.
27 -New Zealand.

1- Silver, Epic battle of Islas Malvinas, Football, Their flag is nice!
2- Amazon Rain Forest, Football, The statue of Jesus Christ!
3- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
4- same as above.
5- same as above.
6- Football
7- why do they use "state" instead of "Province"? , Birthplace of many [modern] things , lots of Nobel and other international prizes winners , It is said that taxation is too high! , Lots of Iranian leaving in Texas and other big cities [ or States? IDK.] , good wrestlers!
8- Nothing special at moment.
9- Kicked Muslims out of Europa. The Spanish language, music and dances!!! some separatist movements!
10- weirdest and hardest language of world, IMO! , nothing else at moment.
11- 2nd to above! but not in "hard" part.
12- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
13- Nobel prize! , Dynamite! , lots of Iron mines
14- Colosseum, Roman Empire , Latin language , pops-paolo pops-paolo , BCS [Brigata Corazata Sepeciale] , San Marino and Vatican city micro-nations
15- TEA! , London Tower , The Eye of London , Stonehenge , Politics , Iran's embassy siege , many streamers! [mostly ESO and GW2] , plan to learn British Accent!
16- Cheapest beer in the world as themselves claim it! , The Brno city and its gun factory, lots of cool castles!
17- legösszetettebbszóhosszúságvilágrekorddöntéskényszerneurózistünetegyüttesmegnyilvá-nulásfejleszthetőségvizsgálataitokként
18- Pripyat , making money from modernizing old soviet era military equipment
19- Hackers , Crackers , good programmers , Mafia , Russo - Persian wars of 1800's
20- make Copy-Paste of other things!!! , low quality and cheap products , almost 25% of total pop.
21- TBH, IDK anything about Japan & Japanese!
22- birthplace of Islam! , nothing good [PPoV].
23- Terrorists Supported by Iran's pan Islamist regime , nothing good [PPoV].
24- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
25- Rightful owners of land!
26- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
27- Same as above.
 
-Argentina
Long history of bad government. Military too powerful in domestic politics.

-Brazil
Long history of bad government. Current president is an idiot.


-Chile

Still recovering from a long, murderous dictatorship. Seems to be doing better than many South American countries. Atacama Desert is a great place for astronomical observatories.

-Uruguay

Don't know enough to even comment out of ignorance.

-Colombia

Still recovering from FARC, narco-terror, and the resulting damage to the police, courts, etc.

-Mexico

Trying hard to be a modern country, but badly corrupt police forces make that difficult

-USA

Politics are more volatile than since the 1850s. Voter suppression is returning in the form of "reforms" to correct non-existent fraud. Violent extremists are finally being recognized as a threat to democracy, but also have support among significant parts of one mainstream party.

-Canada

Lovely country peaceably coming to grips with its past internal unpleasantness, such as maltreatment of First Nations, but largely accepting of a large linguistic minority in many provinces.

-Spain

Mostly sorted from the terror of the Franco regime. Reaction to Catalan independence movement seems a bit harsh, but that movement is probably because of Franco (as was the Basque terrorism).

-France

Still scarred from WW1 and WW2. Better than its (largely American) detractors claim.

-Germany

Probably got over its loss in WW2 better than Japan, and certainly more willing to accept that massive war crimes were committed by its people, in its name.

-Austria

Expensive and good pastry.

-Sweden

I know an American expat who lives in Sweden, with her husband and family. Overall, a great place to live.

-Italy

I know somebody who works for an Italian company, which is run by officious, inefficient, and arrogant misogynists. On the other hand, practice with organized crime and the red brigades probably made their security services good at dealing with terrorism

-England

Not really the center of the universe, but seems to think it is.

-Czech Republic

Renamed Czechia. Surprisingly separated from Slovakia with no bloodshed.

-Hungary

One of the countries in Europe which doesn't speak an Indo-European language (the other is Finland)

-Ukranie

Flat.

-Russia

Managed to move from autocracy to communism to quasi-autocracy with a small attempt at democracy.

-China

Showing that capitalism and dictatorship mix quite well, thank you. China, Inc. is the world's largest business enterprise.

-Japan

Recovering from its bubble. Still not willing to accept responsibility for its war crimes during WW2.

-Saudi Arabia

Theocracy in all but name.

-Lebanon

It's there, again, but Beirut will never again be the Paris of the Middle East.

-South Africa

Seems to have gotten over apartheid. Now, it needs to get its crime under control. They should have had enough time to rebuild their police force to deal with crime, not just political dissidents.

-Israel

Intransigent leadership is not helping. Rabin, where are you?

-Australia.

Big, dry. According to my brother (who visited multiple times when he was in the USAF) full of gearheads. Probably one of the dominantly Christian-dominated countries which doesn't want anything to do with the Easter Bunny.

-New Zealand.

Beautiful, small, and possibly the most civilized country on Earth.
 
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1- Silver, Epic battle of Islas Malvinas, Football, Their flag is nice!
2- Amazon Rain Forest, Football, The statue of Jesus Christ!
3- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
4- same as above.
5- same as above.
6- Football
7- why do they use "state" instead of "Province"? , Birthplace of many [modern] things , lots of Nobel and other international prizes winners , It is said that taxation is too high! , Lots of Iranian leaving in Texas and other big cities [ or States? IDK.] , good wrestlers!
8- Nothing special at moment.
9- Kicked Muslims out of Europa. The Spanish language, music and dances!!! some separatist movements!
10- weirdest and hardest language of world, IMO! , nothing else at moment.
11- 2nd to above! but not in "hard" part.
12- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
13- Nobel prize! , Dynamite! , lots of Iron mines
14- Colosseum, Roman Empire , Latin language , pops-paolo pops-paolo , BCS [Brigata Corazata Sepeciale] , San Marino and Vatican city micro-nations
15- TEA! , London Tower , The Eye of London , Stonehenge , Politics , Iran's embassy siege , many streamers! [mostly ESO and GW2] , plan to learn British Accent!
16- Cheapest beer in the world as themselves claim it! , The Brno city and its gun factory, lots of cool castles!
17- legösszetettebbszóhosszúságvilágrekorddöntéskényszerneurózistünetegyüttesmegnyilvá-nulásfejleszthetőségvizsgálataitokként
18- Pripyat , making money from modernizing old soviet era military equipment
19- Hackers , Crackers , good programmers , Mafia , Russo - Persian wars of 1800's
20- make Copy-Paste of other things!!! , low quality and cheap products , almost 25% of total pop.
21- TBH, IDK anything about Japan & Japanese!
22- birthplace of Islam! , nothing good [PPoV].
23- Terrorists Supported by Iran's pan Islamist regime , nothing good [PPoV].
24- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
25- Rightful owners of land!
26- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
27- Same as above.
I believe they are called states instead of provinces because the United Colonies individually thought of themselves as 12 independent nations that joined together. The 13th came along later.
 
why do they use "state" instead of "Province"?
Before the United States won it's independence from Britain, it was an assortment of European Colonies (Britain, Spain, France, Netherlands, etc.).
The newly formed Continental government drafted a framework that allowed each defined "state" to join the Union as a constitutional "sovereign".
What this means, is that each state's Govornor is the leader of their state and can conduct that state's affairs without Federal approval (within reason), the Federal government oversees the well being and protection of all states in the Union.
Each state has it's own Senate, which are elected by it's citizens, who also elect represantives that represent that state in the Federal Senate.
It might also be fun to know that there were several states that were former sovereign nations:
Republic of Vermont
Republic of Texas
Kingdom of Hawaii
Republic of California
When they applied for statehood, their constitutions were incorporated into their statehood charters.

This is just a brief overview to give an idea of how things are set up.
 
A exercise of honesty. I am not looking for any brainy analisis of what the countries actually are, but what comes to your mind when you think about those, without thinking much.

-Argentina

Football, Maradona, Messi, very tough and unfortunate for the last 40-50 years; a lot of expatriate Croatians there; 1st international football match vs. Croatia; we've used Argentinian weapons (rifles, howitzers) when it mattered back in the 1990s - thank you; brave & capable military pilots

-Brazil

Beautiful country that is badly governed, Pele, football, Ronaldhino

-Chile

Again a lot of ex-Croats there, seems the country has on of better economies as far as L. America goes

-Uruguay

Probably a quiet place, a place of the Battle of River Plata

-Colombia

Drugs, cartels, rebels - not a place to me

-Mexico

It is slowly becoming the second Colombia

-USA

Invented aircraft and internet, gotten the proper job for Nikola Tesla, once upon the time a symbol of freedom and affluence, nowadays too often 'either you are with us or against us' mentality can be read; health care and schools availability too much depend on how much of money one has; American football, basketball, Dream Team, F-14, Lockheed, P-51, baseball, guns & ammo, Neil Armstrong, Metallica, Megadeth

-Canada

Still a fine place to live, unless one hates low temperatures; hockey

-Spain

Move away from tourist-high places and you're golden

-France

As above; Mirage; TGV, Napoleon

-Germany

A great country, that unfortunately miscalculated twice in the 20th century; BMW, Mercedes Benz, Bosch, Focke Wulf, Tiger

-Austria

A very good place to live

-Sweden

As Austria; Viggen

-Italy

A lovely country that I've never been to; Ferrari, Alfa Romeo 8C

-England

Iron 'effin Maiden; Winston Churchill (just those two make it great); Rolls Royce, Sir Stanley Hooker, Dowding, Nelson, Wellington

-Czech Republic

Nicest people in Europe. Definitely (I meet them almost daily). Skoda.

-Hungary

Also nice people. Good looking women.

-Ukraine

Flat land. Kharkov tank works. Nation is betwen the rock and the hard place today

-Rusia

Too much of potential, too many times as if they wanted to burn it all together. MiG-31, Su-27.

-China

Premier country in the world, both in good and bad terms.

-Japan

Very, very nice people. Subaru, Honda, Nakajima, Mitsubishi, Toyota, Sony

-Saudi Arabia

Indeed, a theocracy.

-Lebanon

A very unfortunate country.

-South afrika

It will take a lot for them to live up to the potentials.

-Israel

Not to be take lightly. Merkava.

-Australia.

Big country, a democracy, again a lot of Croats there.

-New Zealand.

Probably one of best places to live - climate of Dalmatia, standard of Germany?
 
I'm glad they're being resurrected. Some interesting stuff and similar topics coming back. Fastmongrel beat me to aviation myths by a few years. Who knew?
 
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1- Silver, Epic battle of Islas Malvinas, Football, Their flag is nice!
2- Amazon Rain Forest, Football, The statue of Jesus Christ!
3- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
4- same as above.
5- same as above.
6- Football
7- why do they use "state" instead of "Province"? , Birthplace of many [modern] things , lots of Nobel and other international prizes winners , It is said that taxation is too high! , Lots of Iranian leaving in Texas and other big cities [ or States? IDK.] , good wrestlers!
8- Nothing special at moment.
9- Kicked Muslims out of Europa. The Spanish language, music and dances!!! some separatist movements!
10- weirdest and hardest language of world, IMO! , nothing else at moment.
11- 2nd to above! but not in "hard" part.
12- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
13- Nobel prize! , Dynamite! , lots of Iron mines
14- Colosseum, Roman Empire , Latin language , pops-paolo pops-paolo , BCS [Brigata Corazata Sepeciale] , San Marino and Vatican city micro-nations
15- TEA! , London Tower , The Eye of London , Stonehenge , Politics , Iran's embassy siege , many streamers! [mostly ESO and GW2] , plan to learn British Accent!
16- Cheapest beer in the world as themselves claim it! , The Brno city and its gun factory, lots of cool castles!
17- legösszetettebbszóhosszúságvilágrekorddöntéskényszerneurózistünetegyüttesmegnyilvá-nulásfejleszthetőségvizsgálataitokként
18- Pripyat , making money from modernizing old soviet era military equipment
19- Hackers , Crackers , good programmers , Mafia , Russo - Persian wars of 1800's
20- make Copy-Paste of other things!!! , low quality and cheap products , almost 25% of total pop.
21- TBH, IDK anything about Japan & Japanese!
22- birthplace of Islam! , nothing good [PPoV].
23- Terrorists Supported by Iran's pan Islamist regime , nothing good [PPoV].
24- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
25- Rightful owners of land!
26- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
27- Same as above.
ayee i seem important at least in someones life (I'm joking)
 

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