I feel like most people actually don’t care that much about Continental Boundries to give an Argument either way.
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echodot@feddit.uk 5 weeks agoErrh, sort of.
It really depends on your definition of Continent. Most people would argue that Asia is a different continent.
Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Geologists, scornfully staring at you.
BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Not sort of. Most people are idiots. There are seven geological continents and here’s a list of them:
Africa Antarctica Australia Eurasia North America South America Zealandia
These contain various subcontinents.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
What’s even weirder is when someone claims Europe is a separate continent from Asia, yet N. America and S. America are the same continent.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Our accepted definition of what a continent is sucks. Why is Europe considered a continent but India is not? Every argument for Europe being a separate continent applies even better to India.
Europe just wanted to be special and controlled science at the time, change my mind.
fogstormberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
I propose we reclassify india as a dwarf continent
deuleb_biezelbob@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
the pluto of continents
BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
India is part of the Indian subcontinent which is part of the Eurasian continent. This is the official goelogical definition. Don’t listen to uneducated children on the internet.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It has to do with geology. Europe basically swallowed up and mixed in with another continent a long time ago after Pangea broke up
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
it really doesn’t:
There’s really no physical reasoning for it. You can read on in that article for the historical basis if you want (basically, Homer and other Greeks coined it, and it just kind of stuck), but it’s really quite arbitrary where they actually draw the line.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
My bad, should clarify I was referring to this specifically:
In geology, a continent is defined as “one of Earth’s major landmasses, including both dry land and continental shelves”. The geological continents correspond to seven large areas of continental crust that are found on the tectonic plates, but exclude small continental fragments such as Madagascar that are generally referred to as microcontinents. Continental crust is only known to exist on Earth.
yournamehere@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
india has HALF the landmass…seriously…thats not a continent
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
If we’re going based on landmass, shouldn’t Russia be its own continent? Russia is almost twice as big as Europe, and it’s culturally unique compared to its neighbors.
yournamehere@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
well it spans two continents…and also it is russia, so.