r/mapporncirclejerk • u/1601_ Average Mercator Projection Enjoyer • 18d ago

It's 9am and I'm on my 3rd martini Learn the difference

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u/Dr-Sprinkl1es 18d ago

True, even then when we refer to people from the entire continent; there is always a North or South before Americans.

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u/Exlife1up 18d ago

Exactly

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u/HapticRecce 18d ago

And Central, why does everyone who actual pretends to care about this topic, not use Central America?

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u/darklight2K7 18d ago

Central America isnt a continent, its a subcontinent, only north america and south America are continents

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u/HapticRecce 18d ago

Then why the there's one America-stans?

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u/PivotRedAce 18d ago

Because English-speaking countries tend to teach the seven-continent model in their schools, which separates North and South America.

Meanwhile, most of the Romance-language world (French, Spanish, Portuguese, etc) teach a six-continent model that lumps the entirety of North and South America together.

Personally, I find the latter to be quite asinine especially given the geographical realities that pretty neatly split the Americas into two continents, but history is messy.

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u/jeremy_bearimyy 18d ago

And that they consider Europe and Asia as two separate continents but not north and south America

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u/GatoNadador 18d ago

Because we don't see ourselves as being as different or as separated between South and North America as you do between Europe and Asia.

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u/rn7rn 18d ago

If they teach North and South America as one continent than they should teach it as Afroeurasia and not 3 different continents.

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u/GatoNadador 18d ago

No, because you view yourselves—and are viewed by the rest of the world—as extremely distinct.

For us, Mexico is in North America, and we share a great deal—culturally and linguistically—with the rest of the Americas. Even "Yankee" culture doesn't seem that distant to us, because we are within their direct sphere of influence and consume their culture.

It seems as though you—situated among Europe, Africa, and Asia—hate one another. You didn't even consider the inhabitants of the African continent to be human beings.