Why do people in the UK often pretend they're not in Europe?

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Kasz216 said:

Samus Aran said:

Europe has a way too big cultural difference then Asia.

You might as well call Asia a fake continent as that's the European name for it and seeing as you don't find us a continent and liars then Asia, Africa, America and Australia are fake continents/names. All those names come from Europe :)

Once again... Europe is closer to India and the Middle East in culture then those two are to Asia. Therefore even if you want to argue cultural divides... it's a bad arguement. Also, names don't make continents either. Geography does. Tectonic plates, a large continious mass and cores. Which actually is another funny europeon twitch, i understand a lot of Europeon countries count "America" as one continent... when geographically it's actually two. Of course in Central America they teach a 3 continent model where Mexico to Panama is counted as a third "central American" continent. The science however is both against you and central america i'm afraid.

Actually I recall learning about North America and South America as separate continents (and I think Central America too, but my memory is a bit fuzzy on that).