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  1. reminder that Europe isn't a proper continent and only is labeled as such because of xenophobia towards asia and the middle east

    Sunday, 15-May-16 03:06:23 UTC from web
    1. @rarity just like how middle eastern is actually east asia to not offend chinese.

      Sunday, 15-May-16 03:08:24 UTC from gs.smuglo.li
    2. @rarity I know in some geographical circles they're grouped together as Eurasia, although in all honesty all of the continents are very loosely and arbrutrarily defined anyway.

      Sunday, 15-May-16 03:15:38 UTC from MuSTArDroid
      1. @narwhal Eurasia is literally the proper term for it, because there is no geographical division between Europe and Asia. And if you want to go even further, you could say that the land strips connecting Eurasia and Africa mean that that is one continent as well, technically. If you think about it, The Americas, Afro-Eurasia, Australia and Antarctica are the only continents.

        Sunday, 15-May-16 03:17:19 UTC from web
        1. @rarity Eh, the Urals... kind of...

          Sunday, 15-May-16 03:18:31 UTC from web
          1. @awl well generally continents are divided by bodies of water. Like, if mountain ranges were the deciding factor, the western US would be a different continent.

            Sunday, 15-May-16 03:19:45 UTC from web
            1. @rarity Yeah, true, otherwise the Subcontinent of India would just be another continent too.

              Sunday, 15-May-16 03:20:15 UTC from web
              1. @awl Well, I already find it interesting they call it a "subcontinent". I'm not even sure what that means, considering I've only ever heard it used for the Indian Subcontinent.

                Sunday, 15-May-16 03:20:49 UTC from web
                1. @rarity well, the Arabian peninsula as well sometimes

                  Sunday, 15-May-16 03:22:02 UTC from web
                2. @rarity Basically they consider themselves a world apart as within that so called divide they hold a culture much different to most of Asia. Race can be argued too, I suppose

                  Sunday, 15-May-16 03:22:16 UTC from web
                  1. @awl actually Wikipedia gives a good reason for it, and that dates all the way back to Pangaea. Since India basically got glued on to Asia with plate tectonics and occupies it's own plate, is why it's called that in academia

                    Sunday, 15-May-16 03:23:28 UTC from web
                    1. @rarity oh? I was taught what I just said.

                      Sunday, 15-May-16 03:24:02 UTC from web
                      1. @awl well that's probably a reason as well, but I'm not the best researcher right now

                        Sunday, 15-May-16 03:24:25 UTC from web
                        1. @rarity Still, #

                          Sunday, 15-May-16 03:24:53 UTC from web
                          1. @awl I love learning

                            Sunday, 15-May-16 03:26:04 UTC from web
                            1. @rarity Same. It's been a while since I could say I've done so.

                              Sunday, 15-May-16 03:26:25 UTC from web
                              1. @awl this learning brought to you by Wiki via me!

                                Sunday, 15-May-16 03:30:48 UTC from web
        2. @rarity If we go by defining continents as generally unseperated groups of land, yeah. Although there isn't an agreed upon definition of the term, so it really comes down to the boundaries set in the definition of the term given how nebulous it is by nature.

          Sunday, 15-May-16 03:21:30 UTC from MuSTArDroid