Europe isn't a continent, it's just not, amirite?

Have you ever heard of Eurasia

by Anonymous 3 days ago

What about afroeurasia?

by maevebalistreri 3 days ago

Continents are indeed a social construct.

by MiserablePudding 3 days ago

Congratulations on discovering the concept of a "social construct". Wait until you find out what other categories everyone takes for granted were just made up for the sake of convenience.

by Sweaty_Remove 3 days ago

Wow. You learned how continents work.

by Past-Farmer 3 days ago

This is completely uncontroversial and a fact that should have been taught in your high school world geography class

by maevebalistreri 3 days ago

No it is controversial, I've not met many older British people who'd say Europe and Asia are on the same continent even by the standards I'm putting in place here of sharing a plate boundary, people would say it feels wrong

by Anonymous 3 days ago

No rule stating that continents have to have plate boundaries! The barrier is officially the Ural mountain range. If we go by tectonic plates, have of Iceland is technically in North America.

by Anonymous 3 days ago

Europe is more a geopolitical term than a strictly geographical one.

by Anonymous 3 days ago

Or (based off your reasoning) maybe Asia isn't the real continent then?

by Scary_Card_8679 3 days ago

Yeah, It's almost as if it's a social construct. Maybe instead of a hard science such as Geology, there should be a social science to study things like this. Geography?

by Anonymous 3 days ago

It's almost as if all boundaries, borders and names are completely made up, and don't follow the natural world.

by Anonymous 3 days ago

It's all very odd. India is technically its own separate landmass but is considered "Asia", Cyprus has nothing to do with the European landmass and is considered "Europe" by and large. I was taught that the Greeks were the reason for distinctions between Europe and Asia due to their limited knowledge of geology and geography based on their era. Since then, it kind of just stuck. "Eurasia" is a term becoming more popular, as is dividing places up more (More people being aware of the Caucus, the Balkans, etc) For as long as humanity lives, we'll divvy things up how ever we feel is logical at the time.

by marlen35 2 days ago

There's no scientific definition for continents: they are defined by arbitrary convention. And those conventions predate the discovery of tectonic plates for hundreds or even thousands of years. Continents serve to divide the planet landmass into manageable parts. Arbitrary conventions serve this purpose very well.

by Negative-Cup2182 2 days ago

I don't agree with manageable, Asia contains china, India, the Middle East, most of Russia and thousands of islands Surely if we allow Europe to be its own thing then these areas should also be divided considering they're all just as distinct as Europe from the rest of Afro Eurasia. Africa can be divided even more on the standard of European distinction My point is there isn't enough to separate Europe, so remove the divisions and include it as part of Asia, expand it to Eurasia, or be consistent and divide it even more

by Anonymous 2 days ago

If you keep working through the encyclopedia you'll eventually get to "equivocation" and figure out why people say it is a continent. It's a fair way to go from C but I believe in you

by Anonymous 2 days ago

The concept of a continent long predates the discovery of plate tectonics. Also, you know continents don't map 1:1 to continental plates, right?

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Continents are defined by language and culture. In English, Europe it's own continent while in Russian, Europe is part of the Eurasian continent.

by Karenkuvalis 2 days ago