Turkey for the EU!

[grumbler]

Yeah, there is a difference there.

For example:

Person X kills person Y. Family of person Y goes to beat the shit out of the family of person X: blood feud, only encountered in barbaric countries.

Person X (who happens to be a cop) kills person Y. Thousands of people who never met Y go to beat the shit out of the police, the Man and any innocent bystanders, looting and blowing shit up for miles on end: riot, encountered in advanced and democratic countries (Greece, US).

There are more options, though.  For instance:
Person X (who happens to be a moron, like his countrymen) kills person Y.  Family of person Y goes on rampage to beat the shit out of any Jews they can find; encountered in typical central European countries (Germany, Poland).

[Martinus]

Yeah, there is a difference there.

For example:

Person X kills person Y. Family of person Y goes to beat the shit out of the family of person X: blood feud, only encountered in barbaric countries.

Person X (who happens to be a cop) kills person Y. Thousands of people who never met Y go to beat the shit out of the police, the Man and any innocent bystanders, looting and blowing shit up for miles on end: riot, encountered in advanced and democratic countries (Greece, US).

There are more options, though.  For instance:
Person X (who happens to be a moron, like his countrymen) kills person Y.  Family of person Y goes on rampage to beat the shit out of any Jews they can find; encountered in typical central European countries (Germany, Poland).

Hey, you could give your students this exercise: choose one of the above three that does not fit in with the other two.

Hint: the one that hasn't happened in the last 10 (or 20, or 30) years.

[Faeelin]

Hey, you could give your students this exercise: choose one of the above three that does not fit in with the other two.

Hint: the one that hasn't happened in the last 10 (or 20, or 30) years.

Yes, once you killed em all it became a bit harder.

[garbon]

I think the second one is the different one, it involves thousands of people, not just the family.

[Duque de Bragança]

I'd say the culture is more mediterranean than anything else. A place like Antalya or Izmir feels no less western than any spanish or italian city. It's certainly not in the arab or muslim cultural sphere.

Somehow I don't see the traditional aggressiveness of Italian males working that well in a Muslim country, whatever moderate.

North Africa also has that mediterranean element yet it's also arab and/or berber and muslim so I am not convinced cf. Morocco which had colonisation-era influences from the likes of Spain, Portugal and France. They applied for the EU as well...

In a different way, I was also about to ask about the quality of chorizo/chouriço and prosciutto/ham.