Borders

Started by Chrollo, Sep 4, 2022, in Life Add to Reading List

  1. Chrollo
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    I don't know why but I'm obsessed with borders between countries. How do border communities interact with each other. Do they speak a common language even if their national language is different? Do they cross the border and shop nearby? What even are borders? Aren't they just imaginary concepts made by rulers several hundred years ago? Idk it's fascinating. Here are some of my favorite borders:

    Netherland-Belgium
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    Norway- Russia
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    North Korea- South Korea
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    USA -Mexiko
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    Manzhoul/Zabaykalski: China - Russia

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    What are your favorite borders?
     
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    Bulgaria to turkey. I am always relieved when i see the turkish border after 2 days of driving from germany to turkey. It is a f---ing nightmare driving through the most ugly and dangerous places in europe to get to there.
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  3. Michael Myers
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    @Chrollo in Belgium people actually speak Dutch. There is no "Belgium language" just an accent. The south part of Belgium speaks French.

    Also, I live near the border with Germany. Most people here speak or at least understand German, a lot better than the people on the other side of the country. Same way w the germans close to the border w Holland.

    If you listen to the accent in this area and germany on the other side of the border, there are also a lot of similar words.

    Interesting subject!
     
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    Yeah that's pretty interesting, it's flemish dialect right? And I just read about the two cities Kerkrade in Holland and Herzogenrath in Germany. They are so close to each other that together they symbolically build the city Eurode. The border is a street called Neustraße or Nieuwstraat. Dinxperlo and Suderwick have a similar situation. It's really interesting, especially regarding language dialects like limburgs
     
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    Definitely some sketchy places along the way where you don't wanna have a problem with your car. Same with my friend who often drives to the balkans and had some scary experiences lol
     
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    True!

    Lmao. Dinxperlo is actually where I live! There's a street that one side is NL and the other Germany. There are signs on that street that say "Dinxperwick"

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    Even the police station is like this:

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    Both in dutch and german
     
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    Hahaha no wayyy how cool is that. You said "I'm living close to the border" , bro you ARE the border
     
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    One time i was driving through serbia on my way home to germany. A white audi rs6 with two fascist serbs were in front of me throwing plastic bottles on my car and said to me go back to germany this is our country. I said to them i am literally on my way there.
    f--- them
     
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    Whole balkans is a GTA server man
     
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    Bro if you go to the balkans dont f--- with them, they are not like germans or other central european people they gonna f--- you up
     
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    RIP Tito
     
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    The border between China and Kyrgyzstan has some amazing mountain ranges to look at.
     
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    So f---ing beautiful. Crazy how f---ing big f---ing China is, it borders 14 countries lmao
     
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    China - North Korea :emoji_fearful:
     
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    Why is there an emeinem sticker on the police station wtf lol
     
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    Haha yeah such a coincidence you mentioning that! I don't live IN dinxperlo, a town next to it. But family does. And I always go there (Suderwick, the german part) for cheap benzin and german beer! :emoji_sunglasses:
     
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    Kinda funny you guys come here for beer and we go to the netherlands for weed
     
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    @Drake you used to play a border patrol, say something
     
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