  
| Author: | bb414973  | | Posted: | Jan 24, 2018 00:13 | | Subject: | Re: Politics, LEGO and Bricklink | | Viewed: | 76 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, laurenyves writes:
| | I made the necessary changes to allow this to happen immediately when asked so
that is why it is allowed now.
To respond to others about geography, Bricklink should not assess geographically,
Cyprus depends on the EU and identical shipping rates that consequently makes
it impossible for the instant checkout to work properly.
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Not all postal services determine costs to Cyprus based on membership of the
EU or not. However, whether or not to consider Cyprus as being in Europe depends
on who you consider to be the authority on such things. Geographically it's
on the small Anatolian tectonic plate rather than the Eurasian plate, which could
in theory place it in Europe, Africa or Asia depending on your point of view.
The 'border' between Europe and Asia is decided by historical convention
rather than an official demarcation, and as such may be marked differently by
different authorities. For us Brits, Cyprus has long been placed in Europe, likely
because it was under British control as early as the 1870s. Every atlas I own
shows Cyprus as being part of Europe.
The Council of Europe (not the EU) believes that countries accepted as being
geographically in Eurasia could also therefore be said to be European. Consequently,
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Russia and Turkey are all members, and
Kazakhstan could apply to be a member. Eurasia technically goes all the way to
the Pacific which, given the CoE's stance, could in theory see China, Mongolia
and many others considered as potential Council of Europe members.
Obviously it depends what you're talking about I suppose - geography or geopolitics
- but to us Brits (or at least this is how I was educated), Cyprus qualifies
on both counts 
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Message is in Reply To:  Re: Politics, LEGO and Bricklink - laurenyves (415) | I made the necessary changes to allow this to happen immediately when asked so that is why it is allowed now. To respond to others about geography, Bricklink should not assess [...]
(77 months ago, Jan 23, 2018, to Suggestions) |
Message Has 1 Reply: Re: Politics, LEGO and Bricklink - ggkk (749) | Geographically Cyprus IS in Asia, so BL is completely right here. Info for everybody: if you wish to ship to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, you should write name, street [...]
(77 months ago, Jan 24, 2018, to Suggestions) |
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