With race, yes we are very different from your "average" Asian. But that doesn't mean we aren't Asian. About the whole Europe/Asia deal, I guess it depends on what you define as a continent and what geographical feature is large enough to distinguish a separation. Geographically they are 1 continent since there is no major break between them. But culturally, they are very different. Hence why I say it's a region.

This is what I learned in GCU and I would much rather believe a college professor who studies Geography about this issue than people on here unless they are credible as well. I will say this, I was taught the same thing that Europe is a continent, but looking at geographical terms, it is connected to Asia. I understand how different it is from most of Asia as far as culture and race is concerned, but that's not enough to make it into a continent.

 

dat boi, while it is technically correct that, if you define a continent as a large contiguous landmass, Europe and Asia are one and the same - and Africa too. Your professor might prefer that definition, and therefore consider people from, for example, Italy, South Africa and Thailand to be from the same continent but different regions thereof. However, a quick search around the 'net clearly shows that while that definition is certainly used by some it isn't necessarily the "correct" one, nor the most popular.

Eurasia is certainly a legit concept, but it's not one the US government considers - there's "Asian" and "white." Go figure.

http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Continents-Crit...IN%3D0520207424

 

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Scew geology and just stick with colors ppl. I'm brown, you're black, he's yellow, and those guys over there trippin on acid are red.

 

The only thing with Africa is that there is not enough land connecting them where as with Europe, it is clearly continuous. Culture based, we are "worlds" apart from one another.

 

[QUOTE=Elistan,Apr 4 2009, 12:07 PM]In other words, depending on how you look at it, there are only THREE continents - the Americas, Australia, and Afro-Eurasia.

 

Nah - *I* didn't, the source I was reading from did. And it was deliberate on their part. That's the way it's taught in Latin America, wikipedia says. Go figure, eh?

 

I'm curious then - how much land is "enough" to consider two connected land masses to be the same continent?

 

I remember back in the 6th grade some years ago they tried to sell us on the idea that Europe and Asia should now be called "Eurasia". I wasn't buying then and I'm not now.

 

so...russians are asians too, eh?

 

Looking at the map, eastern side of Europe is connected with Asia. But Asia and Africa have a noticeable break in them as well as North America and South America.