Why are europoors so obsessed with the rhine? I don't understand why it's so different from any other River

>>212433913 (OP)
it’s where post roman civilisation rose. it’s the heart of europe. loads of developments in western history happened near it

I am convinced that the existence of Strasbourg is one of the most sinister lies taught to American children in our schools.

Germans are on the other side and they want to ruin our life, that's it

>>212434167
What do they teach you

>>212434184
>Germans are on the other side and they want to ruin our life, that's it
Germans aren't real.
It's called Eastern France

>>212433913 (OP)
you overall underestimate the value of the major rivers.
your economy heavily relies on Mississippi river and its branches. the same can be said to the Rhine.

>>212433913 (OP)
the Rhine legions protected classical civilization from the Germans.

>>212433913 (OP)
You have Mississippi-Great Lakes-St Lawrence and we have the Rhine and the Danube. Both cut through the continent, essentially making it navigable. Compare this with, say, Russia, where they have a fuckton of giant rivers like Yenisei and Lena, but they don’t matter one bit because they don’t connect nicely and flow into frozen wasteland.

>>212434307
>you overall underestimate the value of the major rivers.

I don't understand how you are saying that because Japan doesn't even have that many Rivers due to its very mountainous terrain

>>212434380
Japan is an island, anon. They can just use the ocean. Same with Norway terrainwise.

>>212434387
this.
>>212434380
rivers are indispensable to connect inland industrial zones with the global markets.
the Ruhrgebiet would have had to transport their products by trucks or other expensive ways if the Rhine were smaller and shallower.

>>212434184
>What do they teach you
The only time I recall Strasbourg mentioned by the American public school curriculum was when my highschool history teacher taught us about how a lot of jews got killed there in the 14th century.
Jews getting antisemitism'd is the only metric we use to determine historical relevance.

WARUM IST ES AM RHEIN SO SCHÖÖÖÖN!!?

>>212434184
They don’t. We learn very little about the 30 years war or wars of religion.

>>212435095
>everything Americans are taught in their history classes revolves around Jews
beyond grim