Which countries are considered "brothers?"

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Young_Chitlin
Young_Chitlin Members Posts: 23,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited September 2010 in The Social Lounge
I know Peru-Bolivia, Serbia-Greece, and Eritrea-Somalia are brothers, I wanted to know if you are from a different country, which country is your respective country's "brother?"
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  • ThaChozenWun
    ThaChozenWun Members Posts: 9,390
    edited September 2010
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    America is Israel and Britian's big brother. Any time something happens we run to the rescue
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  • Young_Chitlin
    Young_Chitlin Members Posts: 23,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2010
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    Australia-New Zealand

    Oh okay, any others you can think of?
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  • shootemwon
    shootemwon Members Posts: 4,635 ✭✭
    edited September 2010
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    Countries can't be brothers. They're always referred to in the feminine, so they'd be sisters.
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  • Young_Chitlin
    Young_Chitlin Members Posts: 23,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2010
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    Fair enough, which countries are considered "sisters" then, you have any ideas?
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  • ThaChozenWun
    ThaChozenWun Members Posts: 9,390
    edited September 2010
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    Well in essence they are all brothers, every country was birthed from the same massive land form.
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  • dalyricalbandit
    dalyricalbandit Members, Moderators Posts: 67,918 Regulator
    edited September 2010
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    thachozenwun wrote: »
    america is israel and britian's big brother. Any time something happens we run to the rescue

    younger bigger brother
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  • Young_Chitlin
    Young_Chitlin Members Posts: 23,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2010
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    Here is the list of some countries that consider themselves "brothers":


    GREECE-SERBIA
    AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND
    TURKEY-BOSNIA
    SERBIA-GREECE
    CROATIA-IRAN
    PERU-BOLIVIA
    ERITREA-SOMALIA
    HERZEGOVINA-ALBANIA
    SYRIA-LEBANON
    EGYPT-JORDAN
    MOROCCO-TUNISIA
    ETHIOPIA-GREECE
    ESTONIA-LATVIA
    LAOS-CAMBODIA
    TAIWAN-VIETNAM
    ITALY-GERMANY
    ROMANIA-BULGARIA
    TURKEY-AZERBAIJAN
    POLAND-AUSTRIA
    RUSSIA-CROATIA
    SLOVAKIA-SLOVENIA
    POLAND-SLOVAKIA
    POLAND-SLOVENIA
    NORWAY-FINLAND
    DENMARK-SWEDEN
    NORWAY-DENMARK
    CZECH REPUBLIC-SLOVAKIA
    ROMANIA-HUNGARY
    POLAND-HUNGARY
    CROATIA-HUNGARY
    POLAND-CROATIA
    CROATIA-BULGARIA
    BULGARIA-HUNGARY
    POLAND-SERBIA
    POLAND-UKRAINE
    RUSSIA-BULGARIA
    MACEDONIA-BULGARIA
    RUSSIA-MACEDONIA
    LITHUANIA-LATVIA
    ESTONIA-LITHUANIA
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  • BootyButterPi
    BootyButterPi Members Posts: 1,436 ✭✭
    edited September 2010
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    U.S and Canadia

    Yeman and Iraq

    China and Japan

    North Korea and South Korea

    North Vietnam and South Vietnam

    Germany and France

    Ireland and Scotland

    Greenland and Iceland

    yeah.
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  • Young_Chitlin
    Young_Chitlin Members Posts: 23,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    BootyButterPi wrote: »
    U.S and Canadia

    Yeman and Iraq

    China and Japan

    North Korea and South Korea

    North Vietnam and South Vietnam

    Germany and France

    Ireland and Scotland

    Greenland and Iceland

    yeah.

    Thanks for your input. I couldn't find much info on Greenland and Iceland's 'friendship,' Ireland-Scotland, France-Germany, and Yemen-Iraq are definitely "brothers."
    China and Japan have a naval race going on, Vietnam is one country, North Korea is communist while South Korea is continually democratized, and United States and Canada are NAFTA friends.
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  • elhuey
    elhuey Members Posts: 156 ✭
    edited September 2010
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    ThaChozenWun wrote: »
    America is Israel and Britian's big brother. Any time something happens we run to the rescue

    i would say america is more of israel's ? . yeah, more of a ? / ? relationship, israel being the ? .
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  • janklow
    janklow Members, Moderators Posts: 8,613 Regulator
    edited September 2010
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    BootyButterPi wrote: »
    U.S and Canadia
    this i agree with (assuming you mean Canada). however...
    BootyButterPi wrote: »
    China and Japan
    North Korea and South Korea
    North Vietnam and South Vietnam
    Germany and France
    Ireland and Scotland
    Greenland and Iceland
    ...i'm not seeing how any of these make sense.
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  • ra-mes1
    ra-mes1 Members Posts: 420 ✭✭
    edited September 2010
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    Not sure if it's true...but that's how I always perceived Spain and Portugal. Geographically and linguistically, they're right next to each other.

    Italy and the Vatican
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  • MBEWANE
    MBEWANE Members Posts: 15
    edited September 2010
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    "CROATIA-IRAN"??? anyway i don't really know how some of you guys consider some countries as "brothers"? Is it when countries are next one to the other? Because from what I heard from Spaniards and Portuguese, they're not really fond one of the other (historically, they have been competing during the Middle-Ages and later on as colonial empires)...Vatican and Italy??? Vatican is not even a real country, if anything Vatican has (a lot) of influence on Italian politics, leading Italians either to totally reject it or abide to it for religious reasons, not in terms of friendship...as far as France and Germany go, many political steps have been taken to bring them closer, but open a book of 19th and 20th Century History and you'll see why those steps had to be taken for Europe to stop going from one war to the other.
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  • Gural
    Gural Members Posts: 96
    edited September 2010
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    Young_Chitlin wrote: »
    POLAND-AUSTRIA
    POLAND-SLOVAKIA
    POLAND-SLOVENIA
    POLAND-HUNGARY
    POLAND-CROATIA
    POLAND-SERBIA
    POLAND-UKRAINE

    I'm Polish and none of these are correct, except for maybe Slovenia and Croatia.
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  • Young_Chitlin
    Young_Chitlin Members Posts: 23,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Gural wrote: »
    I'm Polish and none of these are correct, except for maybe Slovenia and Croatia.

    Oh okay, care to explain why none are correct?
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  • Swiffness!
    Swiffness! Members Posts: 10,128 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2010
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    This thread concept is ? . lmao @ countries being "brothers"
    BootyButterPi wrote: »
    China and Japan

    North Korea and South Korea

    North Vietnam and South Vietnam

    Germany and France

    facepalm2.jpg

    what janklow said
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  • Skeratch
    Skeratch Members Posts: 1,395 ✭✭
    edited September 2010
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    BootyButterPi wrote: »

    Yeman and Iraq

    China and Japan

    North Korea and South Korea

    North Vietnam and South Vietnam

    Germany and France

    yeah.

    Oh, let me add on.

    Israel and the West Bank
    Netherlands and Germany
    Russia and Chechnya
    Japan and South Korea
    Taiwan and China
    Mordor and Rohan
    India and Pakistan
    Iran and Pakistan
    Iran and Iraq
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  • Black Cat
    Black Cat Members Posts: 86
    edited September 2010
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    North Korea and South Korea??? really???
    Taiwan and China?? WTF?
    Ethiopia and Greece? NO

    most of the countries stated in this thread are definitly not brothers or sisters whatever you want to call them.

    now whats up with the U.S. and Liberia?? kinda like step child relationship?
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  • Skeratch
    Skeratch Members Posts: 1,395 ✭✭
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    Black Cat wrote: »
    North Korea and South Korea??? really???
    Taiwan and China?? WTF?
    Ethiopia and Greece? NO

    most of the countries stated in this thread are definitly not brothers or sisters whatever you want to call them.

    now whats up with the U.S. and Liberia?? kinda like step child relationship?

    I'll add some more great ones for you.

    Belgium and the Congo
    Armenia and Azerbaijan
    Turkey and Kurdistan
    Russia and Poland
    Byzantium and the Turks
    Carthage and Rome
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  • ra-mes1
    ra-mes1 Members Posts: 420 ✭✭
    edited September 2010
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    Skeratch wrote: »
    Oh, let me add on.


    Mordor and Rohan

    hahaha, that was slick....
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  • Young_Chitlin
    Young_Chitlin Members Posts: 23,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2010
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    The point of this thread is to see which countries are considered "brothers," but in the sense of which ones are "allies." What is the point of commenting on this thread if you do not find it interesting? What is the point of singling out this thread out of the hundreds available on the IC just to voice your displeasure on it? I believe there is an appropriate picture for that...
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  • Skeratch
    Skeratch Members Posts: 1,395 ✭✭
    edited September 2010
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    ra-mes1 wrote: »
    hahaha, that was slick....

    devious
    Young_Chitlin wrote: »
    The point of this thread is to see which countries are considered "brothers," but in the sense of which ones are "allies." What is the point of commenting on this thread if you do not find it interesting? What is the point of singling out this thread out of the hundreds available on the IC just to voice your displeasure on it? I believe there is an appropriate picture for that...

    I was just clowning some of the countries people claimed were brothers.

    The thread is a good concept, but some people were just listing neighbours who actually don't really like eachother.
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  • And Step
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    edited September 2010
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    Young_Chitlin wrote: »
    The point of this thread is to see which countries are considered "brothers," but in the sense of which ones are "allies." What is the point of commenting on this thread if you do not find it interesting? What is the point of singling out this thread out of the hundreds available on the IC just to voice your displeasure on it? I believe there is an appropriate picture for that...

    I think it was the odd pairing of some of the countries and the fact that actually use the moniker of underdeveloped pig intestines as your handle.
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  • Young_Chitlin
    Young_Chitlin Members Posts: 23,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    And Step wrote: »
    I think it was the odd pairing of some of the countries and the fact that actually use the moniker of underdeveloped pig intestines as your handle.

    Fair argument, but tell me what does my sn have to do with commenting on this thread? I'm fairly certain the whole point of the "Social Lounge" community was to engage in intelligent conversation, not make fun of someone's sn or label a certain thread in said community as "? ." There are appropriate threads I'm sure for the displeasures.
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  • C.Melendez
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    edited September 2010
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    Dom Rep Venezuela Colombia
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