--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Meynell
<kevin@m...> wrote:

>
> >"I don't want to be on the outside when they make this part of

Europe. I

> >can probably make more money living in Belarus and

smuggling things, but

> >Belarus will never be part of Europe, and I want to be a

European."

>
> Why do people continually confuse a political union with a

geography

> entity?

because they can

i mean i think there is probably a law that goes
if a possible confusion exists then people will make it

but this really isnt so odd

for it often seems we have come together into physical existence
precisely to savor & revel in just such a bunch of confusions &
illusions
some general & shared
& some particular & individual

indeed we have already been doing exactly the same thing with
america here in america for centuries no problem

like sometimes even hawaii & puerto rico are just assumed to
be part of america

& sometimes even bolivia & yikes france as french guiana

& yikes sometimes even cuba & haiti

but it seems our entire human condition is really just like this
with everything

it is only that we even slow down to notice it with things like
europe & america

Whilst the exact geographical boundaries of Europe are open to

> debate, I can't see how Belarus could be considered anything

but European.

>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin Meynell