Should the article delete Europe from that list?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:North_america_craton_np...
I wonder what would happen if you told this to Trump.
Of course there is zero chance New Zealand would ever challenge Australia or France for territory, and little chance we could ever claim economic rights.
If you thought that the Map Men were the only people challenging the Anglophones on this, with so much YouTube educational content in English rather parrotting the 7 continents dogma, be prepared for a YouTube channel that is actually called "Well ... actually" having got there years before. (-:
It’s more surprising to me that there are Brits who consider themselves European. From my point of view, there’ve been deep distinctions between Great Britain and the Continent for centuries. Britain seems distinct from the European nations that, for example, Burgundy or the Hanseatic League, or modern Germany, are not. Part of that, of course, is just that I’m an Anglophone. And certainly the Scandinavian countries are in some regards equally different from ‘Europe.’
I was a language learner there and explained the US 7 continent system. The South Americans in my class said we were racist for splitting North and South America. I told them as far as I knew the split was between Venezuela and Columbia, had something to do with tectonic plates, and that and North America included lots of Spanish speaking countries.
I guess they decided we weren't racist after all. At least not because of that.
But it begs the question, are "continents" even a useful category? What value do we get from acknowledging the concept?
fuzzfactor•7mo ago
Probably nobody knows.
I figure it's been stable for quite a long time, and if number 8 were to show up any time soon it would be a major Earth-shaking event :)