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• BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Citizens of USA are Americans, but likewise are citizens of Mexico, Honduras and Paraguay

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• oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You’re going to confuse Americans who are taught America is two different continents: North and South (difference with the Latin culture).

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  • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • oce@jlai.lu ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Here it is. As I hinted above, conventional continent boundaries are cultural, not scientific. Have a look: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Number

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      • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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 disgusting.

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