Do you consider Russia European?

[Tropez]

Russia historically has had an on and off association with Europe. It wasn't until the 1600s when Russia seriously pivoted towards Europe.  Since the Cold War, Russia has had a policy of opposing Europe and aligning itself more with Asia. While the majority of ethnic Russians live in Europe, people tend to separate it when discussing Europe. With that said, is Russia politically, socially, culturally European or is it separate and distinct?

[Brando]

100% European in pretty much every way possible

Is it Western though? Not quite 

[magazine]

No

[#Beautiful]

no. **** them

[Richmond]

Eastern European

[byzantium]

Absolutely.  It’s history, culture, and vast majority of people are very much intertwined with and located in Europe.  It’s a Western country.

 

This question feels a lot like those people who ask whether the UK is European.  

Edited March 11, 2023 by byzantium

[Intuition]

Culturally it's different from Western Europe but Russians are definitely European.

They are genetically identical to Ukrainians.

 

[AvaMax]

5 minutes ago, Black Jesus said:

What? No, it is not part of Europe

Girl you failed both Geography and History classes and it shows.

 

OT: Most of Russia’s population and economic activity in within the European continent. Historically Russia was also culturally integrated with other European states.

Just because Russia is committing atrocities, it does not change FACTS.

[shookspeare]

No, Russia culturally has a lot of Turkic/Mongol influence that makes it very distinct from Europe

 

Petersburg is very European in character but it's the exception

[illia]

yes, geographically they're both European and Asian

culturally, idk, in my experience of communicating with them they're much more European leaning but I'm not an expert

Edited March 11, 2023 by Flomik

[Orsay]

its a grey area

[ZIVERT]

Russians don’t consider themselves European, they consider themselves Russian. They always say “In Europe…” like Moscow isn’t literally in Europe, but I digress

[cockatoo]

It's a bit of both 

[the good guy_duh]

Geographically - partly. Culturally and ethnically - mostly. Historically - 100%.

 

So, same as Belarusians and Ukrainians, Russians are Eastern European.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 11, 2023 by the good guy_duh

[Brando]

25 minutes ago, shookspeare said:

No, Russia culturally has a lot of Turkic/Mongol influence that makes it very distinct from Europe

 

Petersburg is very European in character but it's the exception

there's nothing Turkic or Mongol about Vladimir, Novgorod, Samara, Volgograd and all other ethnic Russian cities where 90%+ urban of the population lives. They are all bland and Soviet and European. Not too dissimilar to say Prague (outside of its historic city centre). There 100+ ethnicities within Russia who aren't as European or not European at all, but that's only because of the Russian Empire that absorbed other lands. It's like saying 100 years ago that Hong Kong isn't very British despite being part of Britain. 

[Illuminati]

Russia is intercontinental, Russians as an ethnic group are European just like all Slavic people (though they're not the only ethnic group living in Russia)

 

But Asia can keep it 

Edited March 11, 2023 by Illuminati

[shookspeare]

5 minutes ago, Brando said:

there's nothing Turkic or Mongol about Vladimir, Novgorod, Samara, Volgograd and all other ethnic Russian cities where 90%+ urban of the population lives. They are all bland and Soviet and European. Not too dissimilar to say Prague (outside of its historic city centre). There 100+ ethnicities within Russia who aren't as European or not European at all, but that's only because of the Russian Empire that absorbed other lands. It's like saying 100 years ago that Hong Kong isn't very British despite being part of Britain. 

I'm Russian and as another user stated above we generally don't see ourselves as European

 

You seem to be thinking of things in terms of demographics which is legitimate, but culturally Russia has always considered itself as something in between Asia and Europe. it's a huge topic of discussion in its national literature and philosophy

[Richmond]

42 minutes ago, AvaMax said:

Girl you failed both Geography and History classes and it shows.

 

OT: Most of Russia’s population and economic activity in within the European continent. Historically Russia was also culturally integrated with other European states.

Just because Russia is committing atrocities, it does not change FACTS.

 

Educate the girls! 

Edited March 11, 2023 by Richmond

[slayships]

The way they colonized eastern Europe and central Asia is very European of them

[Brando]

4 minutes ago, shookspeare said:

I'm Russian and as another user stated above we generally don't see ourselves as European

 

You seem to be thinking of things in terms of demographics which is legitimate, but culturally Russia has always considered itself as something in between Asia and Europe. it's a huge topic of discussion in its national literature and philosophy

Russians see themselves as European and strive for lots of stuff European, never for anything Asian or African etc. There's always a tunnelvision for Europe. Russia is not Western though, but those things aren't the same. 

 

Russia: “European But Not Western?”

[GentleEarthquake]

Idk but I do consider their president as an awful person

[KillingYourCareer]

Yes, what else is it supposed to be?

[Communion]

Russia is a country where significant amounts of its land is in Europe, its culture is Western, and its largest ethnic group are ethnically European. Anyone saying otherwise is a white supremacist. 

[Nano]

People above saying no as if Europe is reserved for morally virtuous countries.

[Jonathan Cruz]

1 hour ago, slayships said:

The way they colonized eastern Europe and central Asia is very European of them

Yup. No crumbs left