>>211668409>it's like the new world is incomprehensible to themwell it's completely alien to us
At those distances you should normally cross through many different countries, cultures, languages... It's not just a european thing, everybody else in the old world would be surprised
It's the new world that is weird, not the other way around. It's not normal to have such giant expanses of space populated by the same people. Historically speaking it's a complete novelty. It's because you're all settlers