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minus-squareSVcrossDO@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down4·2 years agoPeople divide America into South America and North America, just to allow themselves to call the USA, America.
minus-squarefunkajunk@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoIt’s the “United States of America”, which is really just 50 countries in a trench coat. I’m not really sure what your point was though.
minus-squarelseif@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agocontinental borders are subjective, regional, generational, fuzzy, (and, in my opinion, not that important?)
minus-squareSnipingNinja@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 years agoTbh one of the continents should have been given a different name, but I blame Columbus
People divide America into South America and North America, just to allow themselves to call the USA, America.
It’s the “United States of America”, which is really just 50 countries in a trench coat.
I’m not really sure what your point was though.
continental borders are subjective, regional, generational, fuzzy, (and, in my opinion, not that important?)
Tbh one of the continents should have been given a different name, but I blame Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci, surely?