Originally posted by wormwoodI wonder how the English came to calling Wit-Rusland Belarus...
here's europe for comparison, should be roughly comparable task for us eurotrash?
http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/euroquiz.html
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I was really struggling with the former yugoslavia. funny how you think 'of course I know them all, no sweat', but then when you have to actually pick between something like montenegro and bosnia & herzegovina, it's not that easy anymore.
Originally posted by Thomasteryou mean why they stopped calling belarus white russia? -apparently because it was both derogatory and confusing. as the emigrants fleeing the soviet 'red' revolution were 'white russians', and hence persona non grata. not that being 'white' was seen derogatory outside soviet union, quite the opposite, but it did have that negative meaning inside soviet union. -at least that's how I've understood it.
I wonder how the English came to calling Wit-Rusland Belarus...
Originally posted by wormwoodA White Russian is a good drink.
you mean why they stopped calling belarus white russia? -apparently because it was both derogatory and confusing. as the emigrants fleeing the soviet 'red' revolution were 'white russians', and hence persona non grata. not that being 'white' was seen derogatory outside soviet union, quite the opposite, but it did have that negative meaning inside soviet union. -at least that's how I've understood it.