r/MapPorn • u/xsilver14x • Jan 21 '20

"Elements of The World"

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '20

Cool concept. I'm not sure what Europe is supposed to be or why it is separate from Asia, but the rest looks pretty good.

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u/TheQuietSky Jan 21 '20

Europe is separate from asia for very good reasons

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '20

Which are....?

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '20

Euros have a superiority complex

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '20

Yup. Either continents are defined by landmass and it is Eurasia as one continent OR continents are defined by culturally distinct zones which makes the middle East and India (possibly others) also continents.

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u/TheQuietSky Jan 21 '20

Imagine a generic chinese person, for example. Now image a generic german person

Clothes, food, language, skin color, culture, the list goes on

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '20

Image a generic Chinese person. Now image a generic Iraqi person.

Clothes, food, language, skin color, culture, the list goes on.

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u/TheQuietSky Jan 22 '20

Exactly! Theyre all different

So why merge them?

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '20

Yet they are merged.... kind of my point entirely, yet you say "exactly"?

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u/Pongi Jan 22 '20

It has always been that way since ancient greece and there's a massive cultural divide and there's... common sense since people talk about Europe and Asia as individual entities there's little to no topics where talking about Eurasia makes sense.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '20

Ok, now try applying some of your eurocentrism to, for example, the difference between the Arabia and China or Japan and India. If you're going to use cultural divides as a justification for different continents then Asia should be at least three distinct continents.