MDMAlliance said:
Zero999 said:
spurgeonryan said:
I think most probably realize that I mean the U.S. Not the whole two continents of North and South America.
In the U.S, we often just refer to it as America. Even though it is not.
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If it is not, than you shouldn't refer to it as America, it doesn't get any simpler than that.
and there is no such thing as 2 continents of America. America is ONE BIG CONTINENT (actually a big island since no continents exist on earth) and there is a SOCIAL division of 3: south, central and north America. it's the same as eastern and western Europe and North saarian/ south saarian Africa but you don't see people calling Europe and Africa as two continents each, do you?
what do they teach in US schools?
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Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. WRONG.
The definition of a continent is arbitrary enough so it could be one continent, but the way it is commonly accepted is that it is two. You cannot say that there is "no such thing" when according to some definitions, there are. Not only to some, but to the most common.
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This US foruns are the first place i see people saying America is two continents, so i don't think it's commonly accepted and even if it is, that's irrelevant. something being commonly accepted has nothing to do with it being correct or not. just like you commonly accept American = United statian, America = USA. it's commonly accepted but doesn't change the fact it's terribly wrong.
