Since you appear to be from France, I will just point out the hilarious hypocrisy and ignorance of suggesting that North and South America, which are separated by no less than three different tectonic plate boundaries, are the same continent, while living in “Europe”, which hasn’t been tectonically separated from “Asia” for hundreds of millions of years.
Indeed, though if you actually look at the page for “Europe”, you’ll see that nobody can even agree on where the “cultural” boundary is anymore, because it’s a spectrum. You posted your stupendously condescending comment as if there’s a “right” way to classify continents, and the poor, uneducated citizens of the USA would be so confused at hearing your objectively-correct stance. The way you said it was offensively patronising, and “Europe” has nowhere to talk, because Europe doesn’t rightfully exist in any consistently-delineated way, because the “cultural” nature of “Europe” isn’t some homogeneous block, and the only thing those cultural spectra can agree on is that they don’t agree on the delineation. Anyone using the word “continent” nowadays is wrong, because it’s a dated, arbitrary moniker which serves only to continue Eurocentric cultural hegemony and try to divide humanity. Gatekeeping it and using it as a way to mock hundreds of millions of people, though? That’s just weird
You’re are over interpreting a lot. I was simply expecting some American to come on and say America is two continents because that’s what you are taught, just as Latin culture people are taught it’s one continent. I saw this play before. I’m not saying one is better than the other. By the way, it’s not a Europe thing, UK people are told the same as North Americans, it’s probably its origin.
You could try asking for explanations before jumping to the agressive interpretation.
Me in 2023 learning about tankies through Lemmy.
Me learning about tankies with my father (who isn’t even United-Statian (I refuse to call them Americans, America is an continent.))
Citizens of USA are Americans, but likewise are citizens of Mexico, Honduras and Paraguay
You’re going to confuse Americans who are taught America is two different continents: North and South (difference with the Latin culture).
Since you appear to be from France, I will just point out the hilarious hypocrisy and ignorance of suggesting that North and South America, which are separated by no less than three different tectonic plate boundaries, are the same continent, while living in “Europe”, which hasn’t been tectonically separated from “Asia” for hundreds of millions of years.
You should reflect on that.
Here it is. As I hinted above, conventional continent boundaries are cultural, not scientific. Have a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Number
Indeed, though if you actually look at the page for “Europe”, you’ll see that nobody can even agree on where the “cultural” boundary is anymore, because it’s a spectrum. You posted your stupendously condescending comment as if there’s a “right” way to classify continents, and the poor, uneducated citizens of the USA would be so confused at hearing your objectively-correct stance. The way you said it was offensively patronising, and “Europe” has nowhere to talk, because Europe doesn’t rightfully exist in any consistently-delineated way, because the “cultural” nature of “Europe” isn’t some homogeneous block, and the only thing those cultural spectra can agree on is that they don’t agree on the delineation. Anyone using the word “continent” nowadays is wrong, because it’s a dated, arbitrary moniker which serves only to continue Eurocentric cultural hegemony and try to divide humanity. Gatekeeping it and using it as a way to mock hundreds of millions of people, though? That’s just weird
You’re are over interpreting a lot. I was simply expecting some American to come on and say America is two continents because that’s what you are taught, just as Latin culture people are taught it’s one continent. I saw this play before. I’m not saying one is better than the other. By the way, it’s not a Europe thing, UK people are told the same as North Americans, it’s probably its origin. You could try asking for explanations before jumping to the agressive interpretation.