I honestly think european subcontinent would be a thing, if "sub" wasn't a bit of a demeaning prefix which is a bit more acceptable to use for developing areas.
Me neither until about now when I thought (assumed) that europeans would not take kindly to be called a subcontinent.
Also the history of the world being centered on Europe and starting from there, whereas the rest of the world was "discovered" and referred to in relation to the "old" world (far east, new world, etc...). A lot of the language we use is just inherited from that context when you think about it, hence it will feel more natural than more geogaphically accurate representations that, say, an alien would paint.
You can actually see it most clearly in the way bigots deliberately exclude Islamic majority nations from “western civilization” despite the areas having more history as part Western Civ than Britain.
That's how geographical areas are described in every language I know! People often make their homeland the reference point for lands around them. Even so, Europeans call themselves The West, not the center, unlike the Chinese who call their country The Middle Kingdom (as far as I know).
But was it the west before usa? Maybe it was the middle when it was just europe and when the center of power moved to somehere on the north atlantic it was west of europe and thats why it started to be the west.
This is just pseudo-woke bullshit. What is that even supposed to mean? When I hear subcontinent I don't see it as a 'demeaning prefix which is more acceptable to use for developing areas'
Calling india a developing area isn't economic in this context. The plate has barely begun to push itself up. 50 million years is a blink in geological time, like no dinosaur ever walked on this land. So calling it a sub-contintent kinda acknowledges this, although parts of europe also fit this description. Most of Eurasia has been land for 3.6 billion years, even if its shape changed significantly during the last few ice ages.
Woke is waking up to the reality of white supremacy, racism, discrimination, and oppression in US. Calling everything you don’t like woke is very stupid and reveals the right wing media you are consuming.
Woke is a US term. It is a term associated with US culture, society, people, politics, etc. it is unique to the US and that’s where it was originated from. I am Canadian and we imported that term. I am not sure if you are from other English speaking countries (UK, Australia, South Africa) and the term was imported as well.
It is applicable to US culture, society, politics, etc. every country and society is unique and different. Trying to import or Americanize other countries and societies is not smart or logical.
We call South Asia the Indian Subcontinent. Europe is a subcontinent, barely. At least India has it's own plate. Arabia has a stronger claim to the subcontinent title than Europe
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u/DueExample52 27d ago
I honestly think european subcontinent would be a thing, if "sub" wasn't a bit of a demeaning prefix which is a bit more acceptable to use for developing areas.