How many continents where you taught in school?

How many continents where you taught in school?

7 here.

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>6 continents
>6 parts of the world

5

6

América
Europa
Asia
África
Oceanía
Antártica

Same for us

You know, I still don't get why some countries see the Americas as one continent. They're on different continental plates and were barely even connected by land before the Panama canal was built. Practically the only thing the continents have in common is that both have a fair amount of hispanophones and they're both named after the same guy. Combining Europe and Asia makes way more sense than combining the Americas.

Because

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyages_of_Christopher_Columbus

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_colonization_of_the_Americas

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas#Etymology_and_naming
>The earliest known use of the name America dates to 1507, where it was applied to what is now known as South America.

>tectonic plates
Meme reason to name continents.

It varied wildly depending on the definition and stuff

6
but it can be 8 if you count north, central and south america as something apart

I imagine this is the slighty above average amercian citizen

youtube.com/watch?v=m-fpiNDMTsQ

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>Middle East

>Their continent isn't named after their country

>They're on different continental plates
So are india, saudi arabia and central america.
>Combining Europe and Asia makes way more sense than combining the Americas.
You're the only one that would fall for this meme reasoning. Not like i would expect anything else for someone that hijacked the name of the continent to use it for his country.
>what is oceania

Noord Amerika
Zuid Amerika
Europa
Azië
Oceanië
Afrika
Antartica

Oceania is a continent, Australia is a country.

We're taught seven, but four is correct; Afro-Eurasia, America, Australia, and Antarctica. Fight me if you disagree.

>he thinks Australia is a continent

Oceania is more than Australia. You have:
Easter island
Juan Fernández Island
New Zealand
some polinesian shit
Philipines
Thailand
Indonesia
etc

>Philipines
>Thailand
>Indonesia (at least most of it)

>Oceania
No

OH GOD YOURE SO DUMB. YOU MUCH BE FROM AUSTRALIA.

blame my mid-to-shit tier education. Sorry

>Philipines
>Thailand
>Indonesia

Oceania isnt a continent its just a group, Australasia is the continent

Continents are not related to plates at all. They're traditional regions established by ancient Europe and strictly an eurocentric thing, adopted by others thanks to european domination and

The notion of America as a continent was created out of the necessity of not including it on Asia when it became obvious it was too far from it. Like Asia or Africa, it was just one continent regardless of size or cultural and geographical differences since it wasn't Europe.

It makes more sense to have America to be one continent, unless you want to divide Asia and Africa too.

Dude, I understand how European colonization worked, but that doesn't mean that two different and unconnected landmasses should be seen as one continent simply because they were both colonized and were named after the same Italian mapmaker.

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyages_of_Christopher_Columbus

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_colonization_of_the_Americas

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas#Etymology_and_naming

I don't see how those sources are supposed to help, they're just stuff that everyone already knows.

The tectonic plate thing was a bit of a reach, I'll admit.

I mean, when you get down to it, what continents are which is kinda arbitrary and doesn't really matter. But if you're gonna differentiate them, it should at least be done in a way that makes sense.

I would argue Central America and the Middle East are continents as well.

>I understand how European colonization worked
That's literally how it was named, hence why some people see it as one continent, which is what you asked.

I would argue your mother is a continent as well.

>two different and unconnected landmasses should be seen as one continent
Are you an idiot? Do you happen to think the Panama canal counts as a division?
>it should at least be done in a way that makes sense.
The only division that makes sense is sticking to the bare definition of continent ie "continuous landmass" and then you get America, Afroeurasia, australia and antarctica. All the other ones are arbitrary one way or another, but we are all too stubborn to use that one.

6
Eurasia
North America
South America
Africa
Australasia
Antarctica

It makes plenty of sense to have America to be one, they're not unconnected.

And even if they were, land conection is not important. Britain is part of Europe but there's no land conection with the continent. Japan and Indonesia are asian, Madagascar is Africa. But different sides of the Urals and the Caucasus are in different continents. I'll say more, the eastern part of Egypt was in at some point in ancient times considered to be asiatic while the western was african.

What you seem to be associating with "making sense" is completely unrelated to the logic that created the concept of the continents, to begin with.

5 inhabited continents; Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Oceania.

I've never had a problem adapting to the convention in American English that the Americas are divided in two, however, I do think some people get too pig headed on that as well as accepting American is a correct demonym for the US in English.

>They're on different continental plates
>So are india, saudi arabia and central america.
Fair enough, I'll retract the tectonic plate argument.
>Combining Europe and Asia makes way more sense than combining the Americas.
>meme reasoning
And how exactly is that meme reasoning? They're the same damn landmass, and the Americas are not.
>Not like i would expect anything else for someone that hijacked the name of the continent to use it for his country.
It's not like having America in your name was off limits for anybody else after we did it. You guys could've done it as well, but you decided to be hipsters and name it after the less used name instead.

Reminder that if you believe that North and South America are a single continent, you must also believe that Europe/Asia and Africa are a single continent.

>the Americas are not
You already retracted the tectonic plate argument, and the panama canal doesn't count as a division.
Those are your 2 "reasons" to believe the americas aren't one continent, and both are memes. Thus meme reasoning.

>Continents are not related to plates at all. They're traditional regions established by ancient Europe and strictly an eurocentric thing, adopted by others thanks to european domination
I've since retracted the tectonic plates argument, other anons made good points against that.
>Like Asia or Africa, it was just one continent regardless of size or cultural and geographical differences since it wasn't Europe.
Africa and Asia weren't two equivalent landmasses connected by a tiny land-bridge.
I understand that the new world was only thought of as just that by Europeans during colonial times. I'm saying that it is an outdated custom to refer to two different landmasses as the same place when the world is now fully mapped and much less Eurocentric.

Not really. Europe, Asia and Africa are divided according to certain historical conventions, but they don't apply to América.
You may have been able to bullshit your way through this if North america was just USA+Canada, but it includes a bunch of spic countries too (not to mention half of the USA was formerly part of Spain). If you wanna feel special just use the term "angloamerican".

A tiny land-bridge is hardly enough of a justification to group them together whether there's a canal running through it or not.

And you still haven't justified keeping Europe and Asia separate. The main geographic feature which keeps them separate is the Ural mountains, and if we separated continents based on mountain ranges, we'd have a ludicrous number of them.

>USA IS RUINING OUR BEAUTIFUL SOCIALISM
>WE WANNA BE PART OF THE SAME CONTINENT AS THE USA
God damn south America make up your mind.

>A tiny land-bridge is hardly enough of a justification to group them together
Yes it is, they're geographically joined together
>you still haven't justified keeping Europe and Asia separate.
Historical conventions. Also read >The only division that makes sense is sticking to the bare definition of continent ie "continuous landmass" and then you get America, Afroeurasia, australia and antarctica. All the other ones are arbitrary one way or another, but we are all too stubborn to use that one.

honestly I don't want to be in the same continet as canada

The continent was named América centuries before USA even existed.

In my opinion they are 7

This, because the USSR

So basically, The argument for Europe being it's own continent is that the people living there considered themselves to be living on a different continent?
In that case, most of Europe nowadays considers the Americas to be separate anyways, as well as the majority of people who actually live in North America.
As far as I've seen, a united American continent really seems to be popular among South Americans.
I wonder if we can get an Asian or African over here to get their opinion on this, because this all seems really subjective.

>Australia
>A continent

5

There are only three continents.

7 here, and as a kid I thought everyone thought of it as 7. Like how I thought the week began on Sunday everywhere.

"American" is the only demonym for the US in English that is in common use.

Yankee

Goed man

That is more colloquial, and in the US refers exclusively to northerners.

The real question is : when your educational system taught you this?

In europe is in primary school (6-9 years old).

I'll always remember that American guy (from Virginia if I remember well) who didn't know what an eclipse was. Besides the fact that he was (f*cking) 23.

I just didn't know shit about basic astronomy.

>I wonder if we can get an Asian or African over here to get their opinion on this, because this all seems really subjective.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Number_of_continents

>The six-continent combined-America model is used in France and its former colonies, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Romania,[citation needed] Latin America,[26] and Greece.[17]

Basically during 2nd to 4th grades (7-10 years old), or 6th grade at the absolute latest (11-12 years old).

And our schools do teach us some astronomy stuff, including eclipses, during high school (secondary education), but most Americans tend to forget about it since it's not relevant to our lives.

Gringo

>Basically during 2nd to 4th grades (7-10 years old), or 6th grade at the absolute latest (11-12 years old
Well, ok. Pretty much the same, then.

>but most Americans tend to forget about it since it's not relevant to our lives
No, man. It's not an excuse. Do you think astronomy is more relevant to our live, here in Europe?
no. It's not.
Maybe you guys have a culture of "dumb are cool" and that's why clever things aren't well-respected.

Well, many American people are very great scientists, and clever people tho.

It's just that It's like your cunt "kinda say" to your youth : "be stupid, It's the coolest thing, lads".

>eurasia
>north america and south america are continents
this makes no sense to me

in here it's like
Europe
Asia
Oceania
America
Africa
Antartica

It's my personal view though. I can be wrong.
Please tell me your view about it, guys

This is so true, i had to explain how periods and the whole 28 day menstrual cycle works to this sexually active stupid american who didnt even cared to learn until after that i told him that there is less risk to get you're girlfriend pregnant while fucking on her period

How? Do you ignore antarctica or oceania?

America, Afroeurasia and Antarctica

Oceania is a region

Nice, I have never seen someone saying that, but it have some logic in it

The only correct one

>he considers australia an island

That is the same argument people in USA use to be awfully bad at geography, for me it seems pretty weak excuse

>turkey

kys ottoman remnant state

It is too small to continents to be considered one.

Regional thing too. He might have been from a shitty state desu, because I have yet to meet a human, let alone an American who doesn't know what an Eclipse is.
>Culture of dumb are cool
Only in lower-class / worse off places and shitty southern states honestly.

>Austrian education

>I'm saying that it is an outdated custom to refer to two different landmasses as the same place when the world is now fully mapped and much less Eurocentric.

Might as well completely throw the whole concept to the thrash and start talking about cultural areas at this point. Anglo-american will to change how continents are perceived is not directed towards erasing eurocentrism, but towards importing eurocentrism to the USA.

>Turkey
>Europe

>So are india, saudi arabia and central america.
that's why the ME is almost always regarded as just that, the ME, India is almost always referred to as a sub-continent, at least in my schooling, CA has always been separate from North and South. What's your point?

One of the best in the world.

You could've also said
>The six-continent combined-America model is not used in The UK and its former colonies, Ireland, The Balkans, Scandinavia, Russia, Japan, SEA, Australia and Oceania, etc.

You see how looking at people who DO something isn't always perfect justification when most don't?

None of the regions you mentioned are considered continents in any place of the world.

They probably would if they had an anglophone nation dominating the place, though.

ITT: Europeans telling Americans what is right to call themselves, while somehow rejecting the idea of Eurasia

It's amazing.
But that's also because they're minor plates, and as you said, politics plays a role.

Apparently not for geography
Is this why Hitler lost? He thought he was only fighting half as many continents

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How does splitting Asia and Europe make more sense than splitting the Americas

Asia and Europe are completely different from each other. Americas aren't that different, and they were all colonized by european powers anyways, but you don't hear UK is a different continent from the iberian peninsula.

>Asia and Europe are completely different from each other
So we're splitting continents based on culture now? How is the US or Canada not that different compared to South America.
The middle east and the indian subcontinent should be different continents then too.

>we're splitting continents based on culture now?
Not exactly, just pointing out that there are certain historical conventions related to the origin and use of the term "continent", so sticking too hard to the basic definition of "continuous landmass" is hard.
And if we do, well, americas would be one single continuous landmass, thus a continent.

>How is the US or Canada not that different compared to South America.
UK and Spain/Portugal aren't different enough that they deserve being considered different continents, aren't they?
>middle east and the indian subcontinent
>subcontinent
There you go.

Then there are a total of 3 total habituated continents and that's just fucking stupid.

6

4 continents

That's the one conclusion that makes the most sense and stays the most consistent. But like i said many posts ago, we can't just accept it, right?

5
eurasia
americas
africa
australia
nipponia

6

North Africa is Arab just like the parts of Asia it is closest to, and as you go further up through the continent you get less similar cultures. It's no different than Mexico and Central America being linguistically and religiously similar to countries in South America. And that's apart from the fact that we're talking about two obviously distinct land masses joined by a small strip of land divided by a canal in both Panama and the Sinai Peninsula.

If Africa and Europe are two different continents, then so are North and South America. No amount of beaner education can refute this argument.

In America we're taught seven

Europe
Africa
The United States
Lemuria
Mu
Rutas
Hyperborea

Based Pangea

School 6
Highschool 5

8
North America
South America
Europe
Africa
Oceania
Asia
Antarctica
ur mom

>abcdefg-stralia

1

america

Same

Using tectonic plates or the Panama Canal as arguments to divide the continents is retarded, since the continent was called America by its discoverers at least 300 years before the notion of tectonic plates existed, or 400 years before Panama was even an existing country

>the planet cant change