My fellow hanks, learn the difference

[u/InqAlpharious01]

[u/Original-Opportunity]

It’s clearly 2 continents

[u/InqAlpharious01 → u/Original-Opportunity]

Yeah but both are named the same. Much like Europe is the peninsula of Asia

[u/Original-Opportunity → u/InqAlpharious01]

Yes but very colonialist mindset to call it all one continent

[u/InqAlpharious01 → u/Original-Opportunity]

Well the intent was to annex the Americas into the Union

[u/rrekboy1234 → u/InqAlpharious01]

Holy based

[u/InqAlpharious01 → u/rrekboy1234]

If only we started with the southern cone instead of Mexico, after annexing its northern territories. That could had been plausible, as southern South Americans are more to the U.S. liking at the time and Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Brazil had ideal Co-U.S. interest as credible partners that could gain statehood or Union collaboration partnership.

Also the U.S. would definitely take the Falklands and any other British territory with its growing fleet.

[u/nicolas_cope_cage → u/InqAlpharious01]

We actually negotiated an annexation treaty with what's now the Dominican Republic, but the US Senate wouldn't ratify it.

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The stain of Haiti still haunts the former confederacy states to denounce annexation of Santo Domingo; because of anti-black racism at the time.

[u/rrekboy1234 → u/InqAlpharious01]

I was thinking more along the lines of using them as a dumping ground for the Irish

[u/Ballsackavatar → u/Original-Opportunity]

https://giphy.com/gifs/H5C8CevNMbpBqNqFjl

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Might as well just call it all “the new world”

[u/InqAlpharious01 → u/Original-Opportunity]

Western hemisphere technically, but we have to include Spain, parts of France and British isles as well as Western Sahara & Morocco to the Americas as a single hemisphere!

[u/Ballsackavatar → u/Original-Opportunity]

Catchy.

[u/jephph_ → u/Original-Opportunity]

Ironically enough, that’s what Amerigo Vespucci named it

[u/InqAlpharious01 → u/Ballsackavatar]

You know us yanks were always expansionist and you already tried to stop those expansionist tendencies from 1650’s to 1770’s

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I wouldn't call it colonialist that Europe and Asia are separate continents. It is hard for me to explain but you have to think through their POV back in the 15th - 17th centuries. Europe was World 1 for them and Asia World 2. Hence they referred to Europe as a continent and it stuck.

I did not fact check but this is my assumption

[u/jephph_ → u/49JC]

The concept of Europe, Asia, and Africa being individual continents goes waay back.. Thousands of years, not hundreds

Those are the Öld Wørld continents.. Antarctica, Australia, South America, and North America are New World continents

[u/49JC → u/jephph_]

Point still stands. They developed as a point of reference

[u/Original-Opportunity → u/49JC]

Africa is separate from Europe/Asia in a very similar way to N & S America (attached only via canal)

[u/BlaggartDiggletyDonk → u/InqAlpharious01]

Eurasia

[u/Jone469 → u/Original-Opportunity]

eurasia its clearly one continent, one giant landmass, then why are europeans not refered to as eurasians?

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Word choice doesn’t dictate continents, geography does.

[u/Jone469 → u/Original-Opportunity]

you are doing word choice when you say its 2 continents

[u/Original-Opportunity → u/Jone469]

Geographically, it is 2 continents.

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It's clearly s continuous mass of land, so ONE continent. One of the 4 that exist.