@Princesssharma Yeah the cutest men on the planet!

@Princesssharma chocolate isn't European, it comes from Mexico originally. It's Native American.

@helenS I'm not very computer literate. I listen mainly via cd's and streaming from Primephonic but it can be got free via Spotify. They don't usually break into classical tracks with their cursed ads. Try last movement of Arnold's Clarinet Concerto2 and see if it produces a smile or gets your foot tapping. I'm currently hooked on Sym7/mvt1 but it takes time to grow on you. If you fancy desolation, English lyricism, isolation - try Sym2/mvt3. His 3-hand piano concerto reminds me of Poulenc - English wit as opposed to Gallic. Please don't send me psychiatrist bills. Go to it girl and give it a chance.

@alan20 "Go to it girl and give it a chance.

— Ok Sir, I found symphony No. 1, No. 2, and No. 5 on Apple Music. I'll listen to it and tell you what I think.

(PS Of course we did not "invent" music. We didn't invent language either.)

@SW-User It must have been disappointing to your parents for you not to finish high school. 😏

@HannahSky There's Nothing 😅

@SW-User look online for a good history book

@SW-User I understood that pizza as we know it is an American product.

@helenS Wow. So what I'm hearing is that they literally have us nothing.

@SW-User It's ironic that the original poster's rhetorical question has given rise to so many excellent answers. 😁

@meJess Yes Europe is supposed to give something to the world nobody else can give.

@helenS Yeah some powerful people of europe gave us colonial era and world wide conflicts

@SW-User fuck yeah

@helenS Ummm, Europeans believe in karma, reincarnation, spirits, ghosts, and other assorted hocus pocus just like other cultures.

@quitwhendone Individual Europeans, yes.
But it's never been an essential part of European culture.
I mean come on! "Reincarnation"!
You'd been burned as a heretic, in ye olde Europe. 😁

@helenS Reincarnation is believed all over the western world. I am not saying it is the norm for Westerners but there are millions and millions in the US who believe it and it's believed all over the Western world. Tarot cards, spirits, devils, satan, angels, ghosts, poltergeists karma, etc. Supernatural beliefs are all around us in the people we live among.

@SW-User
Didn’t Bush Jr. rename that to Freedom Toast! 😂

@Pfuzylogic :P

@Moonpenny … there's one exception: Israel, because it is essentially a European country.

@helenS Geographically speaking, Israel is in Asia and is considered European due to the migration of European Jews there. But yes, they exercise human rights regarding slavery. Although Napoleon was unsuccessful in conquering Israel.

@helenS Europeans created a much different system of slavery in regards to Africans. It wasn't the same as historical slavery. It was race based and far crueller.

@SW-User Karl Marx
Friedrich Nietzsche
Voltaire
David Hume

@helenS Maynard Keynes, Tolstoy, Bach, Beethoven, Handel, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac...

@helenS Constable, Turner, Monet, Picasso, Dali, van gogh,...

@Murmurs Yes I lived and served on a BIOT in the Indian Ocean. Didn’t see a female for 5 months there.

@Pfuzylogic it was true at the height of the empire that was true as it stretched from New Zealand through Australia, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Palestine, South Africa and others, UK, Ireland to Canada etc. So no the sun never set.

@SW-User Diego Garcia was 16 degrees south of India so in 1980 that part of the globe was still true.

@quitwhendone America has a strong practice in BEING manipulative, or are you manipulating words now?

@SW-User Who do they manipulate and how? You mean by threatening to cut off aid, impose economic sanctions, or bomb from the air?

@quitwhendone I'm pretty sure going against security council recommendations of the UN, for private gain, counts. Funding regimes with arms that are against their same enemy, only to have those weapons used on civilians, and then throw out with military might, disregarding causality is manipulative.

@ghazinithepower Not at all specific to Europe. The Ottoman Empire for example did the same. Or Persian king Artaxerxes ca. 450 BC

@MartinTheFirst ABBA

@chrisCA We have changed our mind, that's all.

@chrisCA oh yeah. And will continue to pay forever, the camel jawkies are their friends until the oil and Gas is being pumped to keep European economy running and houses light and kept warm and their wepaons are being by the same Arabs to kill each other. The money just keeps going in circles.

The Arabs have gotten a little smart...🤣🤣😂🤣 by reinvesting that money into other portfolios as opposed squandering in Alcohol, palaces and other usless activities.

@jlsdjfhasdljfhasdfa The current crisis in Iran has it's roots in colonialism.