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

[Final-Fan]

Kasz216 said:

Final-Fan said:

Kasz216 said:
No, the other thing it considers is if it's connected to another piece of land by a large area... like I said above.  It's large connection to Eurasia prevents it from being an Island of N.A. while North America having more of the plate prevents it from being a sub continent.

Although, i have to ask you... why do you consider it part of Asia and not part of Europe.  Assuming you support the 7 continent theory.
What about East Russia makes it more Asian then Europeon?

But according to what you said earlier, I'd think you'd consider it an island of North America.  Although that seems silly, it's the logical extension of going entirely by plates IMO.  If not for mashing into Asia it WOULD be an island.  Looking at it from your perspective of judging by the plates, just letting another continent "borrow" your land and claim it as part of itself is even stranger IMO. 

Maybe it can be the American subcontinent of Asia? 

As for your question:  Because it's east of the Ural mountain range? 

1) Nah, I wouldn't consider it an Island because it's connected to eurasia by a big enough piece of land.

America would be considered an Island because it's only conected by Panama which isn't a big enough connection for North and South America to be considered one continent, with South America being a sub continent.

If that was the case... North America would be part of the South American continent... though not even in the form of a sub continent... like how East Russia isn't a sub continent.

2) The Urals are the common answer... but are a physical seperation, when most people were claiming the cultural seperation is what makes europe different.  However with the Urals being the split... there is no cultural difference between Europe and Asia, because East Russia or Asia Russia has an IDENTICAL culture more or less to West Russia or Europeon Russia.

It's kind of like the greeks.  They split Europe and Asia where they did because it put the Ionian greeks on one side... and the "mainland" greeks on the other side.  In otherwords... the Free greeks were on one side... while the enslaved by the persian "loser" greeks were on the other side.

In this case... you don't even have that criteia... making the whole reason for europe being a continent even more murky.

1.  Well you still have a situation of justifying Europe as being a peninsula due to its status as geologically placidly attached to Asia on the Eurasian plate, but you also say that far east Russia is also Asia despite that it is separated geologically by a fault zone and is on the North American plate. 

It's not an island, and I tend to agree that it would be weird to consider it a subcontinent, but it's something. 

2.  Well, maybe we could say that it WOULD be at the Urals, but 'Asian Russia' gets to be "Grandfathered in" because it has a European foot in the door.  After all, that's probably how Asian Russia got to HAVE the same culture ... European Russians moved there.  Am I wrong?  If not, that's why we can say that Europe ends at the Urals even while saying a European country & culture extends to the Pacific Ocean.