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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-
@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.
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@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.
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@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.
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@rarity Yeah, true, otherwise the Subcontinent of India would just be another continent too.
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@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.
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@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.
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@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
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@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
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@awl well that's probably a reason as well, but I'm not the best researcher right now
