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Being from Europe myself, I suppose I'm biased to wanting to preserve Europeans, and am not satisfied with merely preserving humanity as a whole.

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Then why the concern with America and Russia too?

Why not? Aren't they worth preserving?

A better question would be why no concern for China and Japan. In case of China, it's because they consider themselves overpopulated. In case of Japan, I simply neglected to include them on the list - it was not meant to be comprehensive, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d... for that.

Because America and Russia are part of western civilisation?

Russia is western now?

You think it isn't?

Last time I've checked the map, most of the Russia was in Asia.

In terms of geography, yes. In terms of population, culture, and history - no. Out of 144 million, 110 live in European Russia and they're predominantly Caucasian (roughly 115 million are ethnic Russian). If you were to draw the border on European continent Russia would end up being the biggest European country, both in terms of population and geography.

They are European nation, but over the centuries they expanded their territory to the East http://i.imgur.com/k0DzmyK.jpg

Russia is a European country that expanded East. The majority population is Slavic, and descents culturally from Greek/Byzantine influence

Because Russia is Europe?

Is it really part of the European community? And what about America how does that fit in?

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