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Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: [freeciv-data] Re: Nations classification again
From: Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 18:36:43 +0200

On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 04:53:00PM +0100, Robert Brady wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> 
> > 6.
> > Every real nation is in exactly one of classes :
> > white, yellow, black, indian.
> > Problems :
> > Filipinos are unclassified. I don't know what race they are.
> > Far-East Indians are not indian, but white. Blame Columbus. :-)
> 
> Not so sure about this one.. it's hardly accurate to call Americans
> a "white" nation...

Some 70-80% are white.

> > 7.
> > Every real nation is in at least one of these regional classes :
> >   europe, america, asia (read : far east), middle_east, africa or
> >   oceania (incl. australia)
> > Also mediterranean and scandinavia is used for some nations.
> > Some nations are even in 3 regions at once like Egypt
> > (africa, mediterranean, middle_east).
> 
> The mediterranean flag ought to be added to french, italians, and spanish, 
> and probably the arabs.
> 
> I'd like to see a few more of these regional classes. In particular, ones
> for oceans.

Ok.
This was just first version.

> > 9.
> > Some white nations are classified into ethnic/cultural subclasses :
> > celtic, germanic, anglosaxon, semite, slavic, finno_ugric, latinate,
> > hellenic, baltic
> 
> Scotland is probably better in anglosaxon instead of (or as well as)
> celtic.

Not sure.
Any Scot to confirm or deny ???

> In the long term (after the select-a-nation box scales better), I'd like
> to see at least the following nations added - 

[...]
basques

A flag, please.

Also anyone has flag of Tibet ???

Also we nearly hit 63-nations limit,
so only 1-3 can be added until patching source.



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