They didn't just do that out of ignorance, although that certainly was a part of it. They often drew borders deliberately through ethnic groups to sow division.
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Yeah, it was incredibly fucked up. iirc, one of the core goals of ISIS was to undo Sykes-Picot, even.
Europe itself would look nice and orderly with some rectangles. Luxembourg can become a square! So exciting!
Reminds me of the guy who was deported for making fun of Luxembourg's size too much.
Judge: you have 24 hours to leave the country
That dude: I have a bicycle, give me 10 minutes
That's priceless lol, thanks for the laugh
You're very welcome 😁
For reference, you can get from the center of town to the other side of the border in about an hour on a bike.
Rectangles are nice, but our borders are more similar to african borders than you might think. They're still completely arbitrary grouping different cultures into countries.
Take the whole map and divide it up with hexagons
But we have to remember hexagons aren't real, okay?
Hexagons are bestagons
They are, it's science
But we gotta promise to remember borders aren't real
They're still real to me, dammit! 😭
Well, Iberia, Fr*nce, Deutschland, and Poland already look like a bunch of boxes side by side.
You mean USA? Should we make a border based on something? No, just draw a straight line.
The Rio Grande Valley on the Texas-Mexico border is a perfect example. They ran the line right through the people that had been there for hundreds of years. And then you try to tell people “go back to where you came from”, but they’ve always been there. It’s the line that moved.
This 3rd world country, that 3rd world country… what’s the difference anyway?!