An Unconventional Look at the European Map
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The US flag is the flag of Mankind? Interesting.
The USA (to its credit) dedicated the Apollo mission to Mankind (which Soviet cosmonauts were pleasantly surprised by) but the flag was planted as a symbol of the USA. (Other considered options, such as the flags of all countries, were rejected.)
The flags, if they still exist, are likely to be blank now anyway.
Didn't at least one LRO photo show a clear shadow of a flag at one of the Apollo sites?
They aren't identical; the dimensions are different.
On what grounds? There were a lot of states that went into the modern Germany, surely you're not saying they were all nordic.
I'm pretty sure that many Brits are proud of the Union Jack, probably as many French are proud of the Tricolour, etc.
Heck, even countries which have been rather downtrodden such as Romania are starting to show stronger signs of patriotism and the national blue-yellow-red tricolor is popping up more and more.
Why would "The Traditional view" be traditional when it represents just a fraction of the relevant history that shaped the culture of European countries? The same goes for "Historical and cultural divide".
Let's take Central Europe as an example - the "Traditional view" was valid for 45 years (during the Cold War) and does not hold for more than 25 years now. The article also dismisses roughly 300 years of the Habsburg Monarchy, 100 years of Austia-Hungary and the years preceding the Cold War.
These lightly ignored years are important when speaking of any cultural divide as tradesmen, craftsmen, students, etc. moved around the empires and exchanged goods and knowledge with each other. Travelling around European towns and villages shows how the builders and craftsmen influenced each other - in regions much larger than the current states.
Edit: seriously, downvotes? Before the east-west divide russia was considered north Europe because it lies so far up in the north. Germany was already seen as eastern Europe because Europe centered more around France. Even today the geographical center of Europe lies well into eastern Europe.