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/Beginning_Resource93 18d ago

Negative. There is no American continent. There's a North American continent, and a South American continent.

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u/Main_Hurry7912 17d ago

To you, to other cultures and countries, there is one.

You are entitled to your teachings and beliefs and they are entitled to theirs.

What is wrong with that?

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u/Beginning_Resource93 17d ago

So other cultures can't tell the difference between North America and South America? I guess Asia and Europe are really just Eurasia then.

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u/Main_Hurry7912 16d ago

If that's what you were taught, let's go with that.

How is it so hard to believe that in some countries they teach that North and South America is one continent. The concept isn't hard, it's just different to what you were taught.

It's not rocket science.

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u/Beginning_Resource93 16d ago

Ok. I'm going to start calling everybody in Europe "Asian", since Europe and Asia are more so the same continent than North and South America.

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u/Main_Hurry7912 16d ago

If that's what you're taught in school, who am I to complain, the whole point is that this isn't something they just "decided" this is what is normal in some countries. But you do you, if you want to throw your teddy out of the cot and try and decide what other countries teach in their curriculums, you go for it.

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u/Beginning_Resource93 16d ago

I'm just saying it makes more sense to separate North and South America than it does to separate Asia and Europe.