Alan O’Melia

[Alan O’Melia @AlanOMelia1]

@simongerman600 Europe is a bunch of postage-stamp sized micro-states next other each other. Travelling between them is hardly going "abroad". List them all as a single entry called "EU" and then this chart would be more meaningful.

[Alan O’Melia @AlanOMelia1]

@MrLorry El laicismo está sobrevalorado. El valle de los caídos es el panteón de España.

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@DrNeilStone Yes. However there is some evidence in the other direction: that autism caused vaccines.

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@onlmaps So it seems gold medals negatively correlate with quality of life.

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@M1Astra Easy fixed. Screenshot + image2text.

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@ryanburge Three, not two. Catholics, LDS and Islam.

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@TrueSlazac Six republics, five ethnicities, four languages, three religions, two alphabets, one Tito.

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@hispanicnomad y Ceuta y Melilla?

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@RasmusJarlov Austria, Switzerland and Ireland are neutral countries. It’s the others you should question.

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@MichaPingus Still occupying South Tyrol too. 😊

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@BrilliantMaps For UK it should be 1%. Only Gibraltar.

[Alan O’Melia @AlanOMelia1]

@BWJacksonX @zoecabina @DrewPavlou Ok, that’s fine. But ancestry doesn’t work either. No guarantee of national allegiance from ancestry. Traitors come in all colours, including white.

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@OliverMolander There is a little problem with the shape of the unified country though. 😮

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@AICommitsTND @EuReactionary Stalin had a different place for them. The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO). It is the only jurisdiction in the world where Yiddish is still an official language.

[Alan O’Melia @AlanOMelia1]

@simon_schama @simonmontefiore @Baddiel It is a “layers of identify” problem. A migrant who arrived from, say, Belgium, spoke Dutch and was Jewish could be recorded as Belgian, Dutch or Jewish. But almost certainly was not recorded as all three.

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@simonmontefiore Yes. Egypt in particular is the odd one out. It is at peace with Israel, and every Egyptian government knows that peace with Israel has been a huge economic and stabilising benefit for Egypt. The alternative would be a national disaster.

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@BacchusAwakes Because Ireland is not serious an about expanding it. Economic growth is easier in a world language, so Irish language protections are mostly tokenistic. An interesting cultural oddity, but not a serious attempt at making it ubiquitous.

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@macjust123 @TerribleMaps No correct one. Both valid. E pluribus unum.

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@simongerman600 It’s always shown as a % of GDP. However, a % of government spending might be more revealing.