[tomjen3]

I don't get why OP is downvoted. We have a (nearly) perfectly round globe and the first thing we did with it was to carve it into pieces.

Rerun the human race 1000 times. Do you think Russia will show up more than a handful of times?

[boffinAudio]

People don't like to be confronted with the reality of their own lives' utter fallacy. We all participate in these fallacies, it is very hard to extract our own personal identity from them once we have spent decades supporting the fallacy.

It only takes a few days in the bush, out back, to realize just how futile it is to consider any one culture superior to another...