MDMAlliance said:
Zero999 said:
MDMAlliance said:
The fact that the definition of a continent is arbitrary to begin with DOES make "commonly accepted" correct to some degree, even though other examples exist.
Also, calling someone from the United States American is just like calling people from East Asia Asians. Not everyone in Asia are called Asians, though. Get your head out your ass.
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it's not the same, certainly everyone born in US are americans but the moment you use the term american as if it equals someone born in US (nationality), then there's a problem. USA nationality = United Statian, it doesn't matter how ugly that sounds, nationality is defined by the country's name. at most you can call yourselves united statians of America.
about the deffinition of countrys, well, the deffinition of island is quite clear: a piece of land surrounded by water. since every piece of land on earth is surrounded by water, it's all islands. the world continent sounds as if it's derived from the word continous so a true continent would be something like the red line from one piece universe.
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It is the exact same thing. People call people from India Indians, but India is in Asia. Russia is in Asia mostly, but they aren't called Asians. People from Canada are in North America (or just America if you want to call it one continent), but they aren't called Americans usually (though there could be an argument for this). However, there is not one for those in Central America. I never heard someone call them American. Just like you don't hear people calling Russians Asian.
Also, you mean definition of a continent, not a country. We aren't talking about "country."
I also cannot make out what you're trying to say. If English isn't your first language, then I don't think you should be arguing this to begin with considering English is my first language and the word "continent" isn't so specific as to make it obvious how many continents there really are.
Here's a definition: "Any of the world's main continuous expanses of land"
Where in that definition does it specifically show that there being a North and South America as continents is wrong? Nowhere. "continuous expanses of land" can even make Greenland a continent, and even Japan as a continent.
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yes we are talking about country, this whole argument started on page 1 because of that.
AND YOU EXPLAINED MY POINT EXACTLY ON YOUR FIRST LINE. Russia is in Asia, therefore russians are asians, but refering to someone as asian as if it equals russian would be incorrect. JUST LIKE IT'S INCORRECT TO SAY AMERICAN=UNITED STATIAN.
And continious expanses of land would be something like transforming the earh's land into water and the water into land, then we would have a continous piece of land. America is a single piece of land so saying it is 3 islands/continents just because of a political division of noth, central and south America is stupid. if a political imaginary line makes a continent than there are as many continents as there are countrys.
