This is of course a generalization, but it's still a worthwhile question.

Countries in (primarily western, but still) Europe seem extremely similar to each other in not only culture, but architecture and governance as well. Is this due to Christian influence? Or is it recency bias after the EU? Asia is of course much bigger, but even in East Asia they seemingly had more variance up until recently after globalization.

Europe is second smallest continent, densely populated, well developed and share the same religion.

>>17862672 (OP)
>meanwhile, Geo-Guessers

>>17862672 (OP)
Europe is tiny and after the migration period had no major influxes of outsiders unlike the middle east who had Arabs, Turks, and then Mongols, while the Western steppes had Iranians, fillowed by waves of Turkic and more Eastern nomadic peoples until the Mongols.

>>17862672 (OP)
I don't see it. The Balkans seem like a different world compared to the Nordic countries.

>>17862847
They really don't unless you consider poverty a different world, compare it to Afghanistan to the Gulf States or Pakistan to Iraq or Iran to Egypt. Hell even inside you have a dozen different sub-cultures and religiois groups, Kurds, Persians, Turks, Pashtuns, Arabs, Copts, Sunnis, Shiites, Druze, Yazidis. If nothing else the middle east has three major language families while Europe has one major language family.

>>17862885
>unless you consider poverty a different world
I do. I'm from California and when I visited Mexico I was shocked by how desolate everything was. I complain a lot about Caltrans and potholes but in Oaxaca the roads might as well not have been paved with how bumpy they were.

>>17862890
Do you also consider Hollywood and the Hollywood Hills different worlds?

>>17862902
I've been to L.A. maybe three times in my life (once as an adult twice as a kid) and it's all the same really. Still nothing compared to actual third world poverty.

>>17862911
LMAO. Actual Mexicans live better than a huge chunk LA's population.

>>17862672 (OP)
The Middle East is less diverse than Europe is.
They almost all eat the same food, most of them only speak a dialect of arabic and since further islamization there aren't many other religious groups arround.

>>17862672 (OP)
the indigenes of ireland, wales, scotland, england and cornwall have more distinctions and differences between eachother than all of Africa and Asia.

>>17862938
>Africa
???

>>17862935
>They almost all eat the same food, most of them only speak a dialect of arabic
There's three major language families in the middle east. There's one in Europe.
>since further islamization there aren't many other religious groups arround.
There's still Yazidis and Druze as well as the Sunni-Shiite divided which is more than Europe which is Christian, Christian, or Christian.

>>17862993
>There's one in Europe.

Romance, Germanic and Slavic aren't really all that similar even if they're all Indo-European.

>>17862672 (OP)
We're a monolith.

>>17863040
An order of magnitude more similar than Arabic, Farsi, and Turkish

>>17862672 (OP)
Why is Freemason Shithole #13 similar to Freemason Shithole #17? Does not compute, does not compute beeep beep

>>17862913
And a huge chunk of that chunk choose to live like that

>>17863258
Farsi sure, but Arabic and Turkish are practically the same.

>>17862672 (OP)
Geographic and genetic proximity.

>>17862672 (OP)
Napoleon, Westphalia and to a lesser extent Metternich.

>>17862672 (OP)
>Is this due to Christian influence?
Yeah the Middle Ages specifically. Also the Early Modern Period hence why Baroque is everywhere.

>>17862913
They could choose not to use drugs. Many drug users actually want to live like that because they stop caring about anything except getting drugs quickly and conveniently. When I see this stuff and hear about people dying of fentanyl overdoses, I only think that we need to unironically bring back the war on drugs.

>>17863453
>And a huge chunk of that chunk choose to live like that
Sounds like a cultural trait that separates them from others

>>17863486
>Arabic and Turkish are practically the same
>Romance and Germanic arr completely different
LMAO

>>17863609
Doing drugs isn't a cultural trait it is degenerate

>>17862672 (OP)
>even in East Asia they seemingly had more variance
Bait needs to be subtle

>>17863631
They're all brown, the only difference is that one is sand nigger and the other is steppe nigger

However, globalization and modern nation-state formation have also led to some homogenization recently.

>>17863561
You would do well to realize there was never a war on drugs. If the government so desired the drug epidemic could end tomorrow, they don't want it to end though, it is quite profitable, it distracts the population, and it allows them a backdoor into black markets. Having fentanyl users on every corner in major metropolitan areas normalizes suffering and makes you less aware of how actively shit your life is becoming because at least you aren't stealing copper and freezing to death come winter.