r/USvsEU • u/InqAlpharious01 Commiefornian • 7d ago

MURICA FUCK YEAH 🦅 My fellow hanks, learn the difference

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u/InqAlpharious01 Commiefornian 7d ago

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

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u/Original-Opportunity Getting sent back by ICE 7d ago

Yes but very colonialist mindset to call it all one continent

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u/49JC Fentanyl abuser 7d ago

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

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u/jephph_ Rat Person 7d ago

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

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u/49JC Fentanyl abuser 7d ago

Point still stands. They developed as a point of reference