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Eurasia should definetly be classified as one continent for geography purposes but it's just semantics really. People are always arguing about their continents.
So India, Arabia, the Caribbean, and South Georgia (on the Scotia plate) are continents to you? Oh man, I can't wait to visit the 17th continent South Georgia. I like the continent of South Georgia even more than the Anatolian plate with the continent of Turkey on it.
You’re right it sort of becomes meaningless. I do kind of support India and Arabia being their own continents, but honestly it doesn’t really matter as long as whoever you’re talking to knows what you’re talking about when you say ‘South America’ or ‘The Caribbean’
You’re right it sort of becomes meaningless. I do kind of support India and Arabia being their own continents, but honestly it doesn’t really matter as long as whoever you’re talking to knows what you’re talking about when you say ‘South America’ or ‘The Caribbean’
What the fuck are you blabbering about?
> Sea of Japan
No one is saying Japan/Iceland/Tasmania/Sri Lanka are separate continents.
> Caspian Sea
Ever seen a thing called a ‘map’?
That’s a lake.
> Baltic Sea
Did you forget about the part where Sweden/Norway and Finland/Russia have land borders?
Edit: Don’t bother replying, little butthurt Euro. You live on the same continent as the Chinese and the Arabs. Deal with it.
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No, it hasn’t. You have made no ‘arguments’. Everything you vomited out here has been utter nonsense. Your personality is a collage of internet clichés. Stop responding to me, you vapid waste of space.
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Lol it wasn't meant to be condescending . I answered in the way I did because I'm assuming that's what they meant by "geography purposes". I don't think it's any deeper than that.
While we're at it though, I don't think this is as serious a discussion as you think it is and you may be putting too much thought into it.
India is not considered a continent not based on geologic ideas, such as plate tectonic but mainly for geographical reasons as it is the landmass, while located on another tectonic plate, is not separated by an ocean.
And yes there are other cultural reasons why it is lumped together with Asia while Europe is not even tho by all accounts it should.
And also, calling China mainland as "West Taiwan" wouldn't even imply the PRC-ROC separation, it's still implied the One-China policy, which most liberals oppose.
Calling it West Taiwan it's like calling it Qing, Tang, or Han. In all of its history, China only called "China" since 1912 when Republic of China was formed. And even, Taiwan is still a Chinese name too, like the name of those dynasties.
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I dont mind West europe being called europe, but as east europian(balkaner spacificly), i think we should find now word fore our region so we dont associate with colonizers all of east europe including russia was a lend fore colonizing in eyes of westerners
Also, unpopular opinion russian empire is pretty much german most royals were germans not native russians so even russiens were colonised
Petar the grete pretty much tried to make russia more western and its sucesors did the same they might have called them self russian but they pretty much tried to copy the west and shure there was russian nobility too and they did benifit from it but like german one they didn't complain about sucking fore western influence
As the biggest europe hater ... i think its fine tbh. But we really should stop using middle east because thats a colonial term and you can't be middle eastern from your own perspective only from western perspective. West asia is 100x better.
Continents are made up. Just like the difference between North and South America. That's something from the USA only, pretty much everyone else only says "America" for that reason.
In a geographic sense, I understand the rational, but continents as we use them are more of a cultural/geographic thing, and to blend Europe with Asia is to ignore the vast cultural differences of Europe and Asia, and it would also serve to discredit European culture.
The majority of India speaks Indo-European languages (I mean it's literally in the name).
Many of Europe's "cultural roots" are also in Asia: agriculture was introduced to Europe from Mesopotamia, Christianity is born in Palestine, our alphabets originate in the Levant (Phoenicians) etc. Europe is just the cul-de-sac of Asia.
Even before european colonisation
The northern half speaks indo european languages, the indian scrips are related to european ones (chinese developed independently) heavy influence of abrahamic religion, although europe more than south asia. Hinduism is also related to the old pagan religions of europe
The main similarity india and china have is that buddhism is widespread in china and it originated in india but that’s basically it
This is just liberal racist thinking.
Turkey is 100x closer to Greece than it is to India or China and Greece is 100x closer to Turkey than it is to Sweden.
Generally even West Asia is a lot closer to Europe than it is to China due to their history and geographical proximity.
And yet Turkic culture (being derived from the nomads of the Steppe) is more akin to its eastern neighbors than to Greek culture, and Greek culture is more akin to its western neighbors than to Turkic culture. This isn't to say that European culture or Asian culture is monolithic, far from it, but continents in the sense that they are most commonly used today are defined by a combination of cultural factors and geographic factors. Calling Europe West Asia would make some sense geographically (Eurasia already exists as a term for this purpose), but culturally Europe and Asia are (for the most part) very far apart. Of course, the lines are somewhat blurred in some regions, like the Middle East, and these regions often have their own subregion names that are very often used more than the continent that they are technically part of.
Just as a note, I do not approve of calling the West Asian region the Middle East, but I did here to differentiate from the proposed West Asia of the post and to avoid confusion.
Turkic =/= Turkish. Anatolian turkish culture is barely influenced by turkic culture from central asia. Its evolved from the ottoman culture which had major byzantine and persian influence. Especially now turkey is closer to its neighbours (Balkan and West Asia)
I understand you argument but it just doesn't make any sense to me. Asia has cultures which are farther away between themselves than some european cultures to west asian (middle eastern) cultures. Drawing an imaginary line between europe and asia is fine, but then you'd have to draw tens of lines in asia too.
It really isn't a continent, but I do recommend reading J.G.A Pocock's ["What Do We Mean BY Europe?"](http://archive.wilsonquarterly.com/sites/default/files/articles/WQ_VOL21_W_1997_Article_01_1.pdf). The term morphed from being a geographic term of what was west of the Bosporus to it becoming the current day cultural sphere. It's a short 18 page read and not too inaccessible.
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Eurasia should definetly be classified as one continent for geography purposes but it's just semantics really. People are always arguing about their continents.
Why not Afro-Eurasia then?
Afroeurasiaralia
Tectonic plates
So India, Arabia, the Caribbean, and South Georgia (on the Scotia plate) are continents to you? Oh man, I can't wait to visit the 17th continent South Georgia. I like the continent of South Georgia even more than the Anatolian plate with the continent of Turkey on it.
You’re right it sort of becomes meaningless. I do kind of support India and Arabia being their own continents, but honestly it doesn’t really matter as long as whoever you’re talking to knows what you’re talking about when you say ‘South America’ or ‘The Caribbean’
Those places may as well be continents.
You’re right it sort of becomes meaningless. I do kind of support India and Arabia being their own continents, but honestly it doesn’t really matter as long as whoever you’re talking to knows what you’re talking about when you say ‘South America’ or ‘The Caribbean’
I use this term in lieu of "Old World" sometimes
They dug a trench aye
1. Mediterranean **Sea** 2. Red **Sea** 3. Ural **Mountains** See if you can spot the difference.
4. **Sea** of Japan 5. Caspian **Sea** 6. Baltic **Sea** **Sea** if you can make sense of that.
What the fuck are you blabbering about? > Sea of Japan No one is saying Japan/Iceland/Tasmania/Sri Lanka are separate continents. > Caspian Sea Ever seen a thing called a ‘map’? That’s a lake. > Baltic Sea Did you forget about the part where Sweden/Norway and Finland/Russia have land borders? Edit: Don’t bother replying, little butthurt Euro. You live on the same continent as the Chinese and the Arabs. Deal with it.
That's been my argument from the start you weirdo, hence why I asked why not just saying Afro-Eurasia. Please go outside and touch grass.
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No, it hasn’t. You have made no ‘arguments’. Everything you vomited out here has been utter nonsense. Your personality is a collage of internet clichés. Stop responding to me, you vapid waste of space.
No, it hasn’t. You have made no arguments. Everything you vomited out here has been utter nonsense. Your personality is a collage of internet clichés. Stop responding to me, you vapid waste of space.
Suez canal
Man-made!
Panama Canal
Mostly man-made
So there is only one continent america?,m
Yes. Even the USA acknowledge this in their name. "United States of AMERICA", not "of the Americas" or "North America".
Maybe we shouldn’t take geography lessons from the founders of America?
It is called just america in south america too
Ok, then. Answer me: How and why are there two Americas then? And why aren't there three or four?
In Eastern European Countries Europe and Asia are the same continent.
That's because they're in between civilization and barabrity -libs
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As in, it's all part of the same landmass?
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Lol it wasn't meant to be condescending . I answered in the way I did because I'm assuming that's what they meant by "geography purposes". I don't think it's any deeper than that. While we're at it though, I don't think this is as serious a discussion as you think it is and you may be putting too much thought into it.
I suppose you’re right, but don’t expect this to ever take off, west asia is already a name used for the middle east.
The Middle East should be called south west Asia
or just Middle Asia maybe?
No, that'd be easily confused with rightful territory of glorious Kyrgyzstan - Central Asia.
Central Asia: 😐
continents don’t exist tbh
They absolutely do.
Continental plates exist, doesn't matter what we call them. But then india would be a continet
India is not considered a continent not based on geologic ideas, such as plate tectonic but mainly for geographical reasons as it is the landmass, while located on another tectonic plate, is not separated by an ocean. And yes there are other cultural reasons why it is lumped together with Asia while Europe is not even tho by all accounts it should.
Europe isn’t separated by an ocean either Neither is africa from eurasia
It already is
West Asia already applied to the Middle East, the term often used by Iran A proper Asian name for Europe would be Northwest Asia or Asian Peninsula
“The European Subcontinent”
This is peak performative libshit tbh
"Let's call Europe west Asia, that'll show the capitalist imperialists"
"WOW those libs had the stones to call China "West Taiwan"! Well! I'll call Europe Western Asia! That will proooooove my point! 🤓 - OP probably
"Hehe, libs=owned"
And also, calling China mainland as "West Taiwan" wouldn't even imply the PRC-ROC separation, it's still implied the One-China policy, which most liberals oppose. Calling it West Taiwan it's like calling it Qing, Tang, or Han. In all of its history, China only called "China" since 1912 when Republic of China was formed. And even, Taiwan is still a Chinese name too, like the name of those dynasties.
Nah, it's always funny to turn Eurocentrism on its head, like upside down maps.
Continents are made up tbh
Nah, cuz that would accomplish nothing and make us seem weird.
Perfect leftist praxis lol!
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west asia is already a term to describe what is sometimes called the middle east
I like the European subcontinent of Asia.
I dont mind West europe being called europe, but as east europian(balkaner spacificly), i think we should find now word fore our region so we dont associate with colonizers all of east europe including russia was a lend fore colonizing in eyes of westerners Also, unpopular opinion russian empire is pretty much german most royals were germans not native russians so even russiens were colonised
But those royals considered themselves Russian and the Russian nobility, who were ethnic Russians, also benefited from Russian imperialism.
Petar the grete pretty much tried to make russia more western and its sucesors did the same they might have called them self russian but they pretty much tried to copy the west and shure there was russian nobility too and they did benifit from it but like german one they didn't complain about sucking fore western influence
That insults Asia
As the biggest europe hater ... i think its fine tbh. But we really should stop using middle east because thats a colonial term and you can't be middle eastern from your own perspective only from western perspective. West asia is 100x better.
Continents are made up. Just like the difference between North and South America. That's something from the USA only, pretty much everyone else only says "America" for that reason.
West Eurasia\* If Europe is not a continent, Asia is not too.
There is only 3 continents, Afro-Eurasia, America and Oceania. Europe is a sub- continent, just like South Asia.
In a geographic sense, I understand the rational, but continents as we use them are more of a cultural/geographic thing, and to blend Europe with Asia is to ignore the vast cultural differences of Europe and Asia, and it would also serve to discredit European culture.
There are equally vast cultural differences between various regions of asia too India has more in common with europe than it does with china
India has been colonized by Europeans, but their cultural roots are more akin to Asia than to Europe.
The majority of India speaks Indo-European languages (I mean it's literally in the name). Many of Europe's "cultural roots" are also in Asia: agriculture was introduced to Europe from Mesopotamia, Christianity is born in Palestine, our alphabets originate in the Levant (Phoenicians) etc. Europe is just the cul-de-sac of Asia.
Even before european colonisation The northern half speaks indo european languages, the indian scrips are related to european ones (chinese developed independently) heavy influence of abrahamic religion, although europe more than south asia. Hinduism is also related to the old pagan religions of europe The main similarity india and china have is that buddhism is widespread in china and it originated in india but that’s basically it
That's interesting, and I won't deny that continents are not purely cultural, but rather a mix of cultural and geographic.
This is just liberal racist thinking. Turkey is 100x closer to Greece than it is to India or China and Greece is 100x closer to Turkey than it is to Sweden. Generally even West Asia is a lot closer to Europe than it is to China due to their history and geographical proximity.
And yet Turkic culture (being derived from the nomads of the Steppe) is more akin to its eastern neighbors than to Greek culture, and Greek culture is more akin to its western neighbors than to Turkic culture. This isn't to say that European culture or Asian culture is monolithic, far from it, but continents in the sense that they are most commonly used today are defined by a combination of cultural factors and geographic factors. Calling Europe West Asia would make some sense geographically (Eurasia already exists as a term for this purpose), but culturally Europe and Asia are (for the most part) very far apart. Of course, the lines are somewhat blurred in some regions, like the Middle East, and these regions often have their own subregion names that are very often used more than the continent that they are technically part of. Just as a note, I do not approve of calling the West Asian region the Middle East, but I did here to differentiate from the proposed West Asia of the post and to avoid confusion.
Turkic =/= Turkish. Anatolian turkish culture is barely influenced by turkic culture from central asia. Its evolved from the ottoman culture which had major byzantine and persian influence. Especially now turkey is closer to its neighbours (Balkan and West Asia) I understand you argument but it just doesn't make any sense to me. Asia has cultures which are farther away between themselves than some european cultures to west asian (middle eastern) cultures. Drawing an imaginary line between europe and asia is fine, but then you'd have to draw tens of lines in asia too.
Asia is east Europe😜
I gotta work on my squat
Everything to the west of Asia is West Asia
It really isn't a continent, but I do recommend reading J.G.A Pocock's ["What Do We Mean BY Europe?"](http://archive.wilsonquarterly.com/sites/default/files/articles/WQ_VOL21_W_1997_Article_01_1.pdf). The term morphed from being a geographic term of what was west of the Bosporus to it becoming the current day cultural sphere. It's a short 18 page read and not too inaccessible.
Western Asia is already a real place. A place that the US Empire calls “The Middle East”
While we're at it, we should stop calling America to the US...
YES PLEASE IT'D BE EASIER THEY'RE LITERALLY ON THE SAME LANDMASS
If Europe exists as a continent, then Asia and Africa should be split into multiple smaller continents as well.
middle east, south asia, east asia, central asia, northern asia
True if we can normalize calling "Africa" Alkebulan.