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

[Lord Flashheart]

Kasz216 said:

Lord Flashheart said:

The UN say that "continent" can refer not only to a geographical continent, but it may also be defined on grounds of culture and politics, and Europe's culture and politics is undoubtedly different from Asia.

Or as someone else said "because they made the first textbooks"

I've already rebutted that point twice in the thread as to why Europe ISN'T culturally distinct from asia... to which nobody has offered a proper reply. If you were to divide Asia and Europe into two continents by culture... the Middle East and Indian areas would in fact be part of "Europe". Due to those nations being closer to Europe culturally then asia. When people make the cultural arguement... what they really mean is "White people live here! Non white people live in Asia!" It's an artificat of past racism.

I was using that to show there are differing ways to judge what is a continent than what you're offering. I don't know what your way to judge a continent is. If we were to judge it culterally then I would have India and the Middle east seperat to asia and europe.

Nice generalisation of what people mean by the way.

Not racist from you at all.