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| ▲ | autoexec 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It's still pretty long in the US.
Over an hour by car, and even for people who bicycle regularly riding a century is no joke. |
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| ▲ | rootusrootus 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | By that same sort of metric, 100 years is a long time in Europe, too. Not too many people live that long. |
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| ▲ | rootusrootus 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| How pedantic can we be? There are a number of countries in Europe younger than the United States... |
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| ▲ | skrebbel 34 minutes ago | parent [-] | | It’s more like US people look at a couple 100yo buildings and say stuff like “wow this place has a lot of history!” |
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| ▲ | tick_tock_tick 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Isn't the USA older then pretty much every country in Europe? Maybe the UK could be considered older depending on how you count it and San Marino is there but all the other major ones like Germany, Italy, France, Spain, etc aren't even 100. |
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| ▲ | jbarberu a few seconds ago | parent | next [-] | | Sweden would like a word... | |
| ▲ | Scandiravian 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | How in the world can you claim that France is not even 100? The German empire was established in 1857, which is definitely more than 100 years ago; it's also not unreasonable to say that the HRE could be equated to the German state, that Spain is the continuation of Castille, and that the Roman empire can be considered the direct precursor to Italy There's a cultural through line for all these countries, often stretching back thousands of years, which means that they reach further back than the definition of the modern state | | |
| ▲ | higginsniggins an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | If you're gonna give them credit for stuff like that, then you need to at least give credit to the United States as far back as the Pilgrims in the 1600s. | |
| ▲ | BuyMyBitcoins an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Perhaps they referenced a source that only considers the French Fifth Republic as “France”? That would give it an age of 68. |
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| ▲ | bmitc 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It's interesting how arrogant Europeans can be towards the U.S. when they themselves seeded the U.S.! | |
| ▲ | bdangubic 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | My Dad has a vacuum cleaner that is older than USA |
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