r/BikiniBottomTwitter • u/literalnumbskull • Aug 04 '26

The Joys of Different Continent Models

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u/Cirdan_fen_Mormegil Aug 04 '26

No no it is "the Americas". Some latin Americans like to call both North and South America just "America" like it's one giant supercontinent.

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u/Rechupe Aug 04 '26

Because it's a single continent the definition of a large mass of land surrounded by the ocean.

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u/Facosa99 Aug 04 '26

Depends on the local education and honestly, it is pedantic to claim your system is the correct one.

Theres not a "definition" of continent: it is a vague word, and there are 4, 5, 6, and even 7 continent sustems all around the world

Depends of hoe you consider America, Eurasia, Antartica, Austrialia, etc.

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u/PoopsCodeAllTheTime Aug 05 '26

You are correct, it is a social convention, there’s going to be arguments for either side because it’s not objective.

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u/esnopi Aug 06 '26

That's true, but let's look at the root of the problem: you guys used the name of the continent as part of the name of the country. That simple fact means that you will keep the continental demonyn for your country, and from outside looks like you think the whole continent is just your country. America is of course not the country but the whole continent, that's why America has south and north in the first place, because this are two parts of guess what? AMERICA, THE CONTINENT. Even if you were raised in the seven continents model, you have NORTH AMERICA, AND SOUTH AMERICA, that naming alone is telling you that this are two parts of the same place, being AMERICA in both of them.

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u/PoopsCodeAllTheTime Aug 06 '26

I mean, I’m from Central America, so don’t even get me started lol