Re: Riots?

Bulent Murtezaoglu wrote: 
I might even agree with you if you came right out and said it
is having a Christian past that defines the concept you abuse
geographic terms to name.  So up till the 17th century, Europe
included Siberia but excluded points east of Vienna?  It is not your
fault since the politicians also resort to this euphemism, but this
has problems similar to those of overloading (<- there, remotely on
topic now).

Hm, AFAIK most western countries used to be called Occident, and Turkey, Arabia, but also other Muslim and Russian-Orthodox countries were called Orient (or "morning land" in German). I don't think anybody would have considered them European.

Well, it's just a name, so whatever...
(I guess the EUROPE packages we use differ in their exported symbols.)

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