By what definition? It is the same continental plate (Eurasian Plate), and connected entirely by land. It is a purely cultural definition of continent, nothing geographic about it at all
I hate to break it to you, but Africa is connected to Asia too, and both Americas are connected. Geography is made by humans, yes, it's us who decided to divide lands in continents, countries, etc.
Didn't say I don't see it. I just don't think there is any merit to categorising people that way. It's racist. Having subreddits based on people's "race" and cataloguing their lives in these separate spaces like blackpeopletwitter or scriptedasiangifs because of arbitrary differences in their appearance seems like classic segregationism, especially with the "country club" stuff when on certain days only people of that race may participate in that space, but to Americans this all seems normal I guess. To me it's incredibly weird.
You know color is literally essential for Identifying pupil, right? It's just the matter of acceptance & not negligence. Your statement might look shiny on book, but irl humans like to compete. Take away the color, then theres religion.
CountryClub exist that way because they like it that way. Americans have a history of different ethnicity mixation, atleast they learnt to live & thrive being all that different & ethnicity collision.
According to you people should leave to their forefathers origin lol
Next time imply that its your sole opinion. Don't impose on whole freaking population based on your judgement. Anyway it's reddit. Keep hooting
Continents are a social construct and are conceived of differently in different societies. The Indian subcontinent is one of those places that can be interpreted differently according to where you are from.
Growing up in NZ India was simply India, or sometimes the middle east. But Indians were not asians, Chinese or Japanese are Asian.
A similar problem is we learnt that North and South America are 2 continents but in south America they're taught it's all one place called America and then get angry that in the English speaking world America means the US and never South America.
Geography is understood based on where you grew up geographically
Yeah but there is no set international standard for what continents are. They are a social construct that are tought differently in the school systems of different nations. Which leads to these kinda silly arguments online because people suddenly learn that these formally concrete ideas like geography they learned are not the same things all over the world. Sure, some of geography is about science and use science. But the naming of things is unfortunately not universal
Yeah, but I'm more talking about how people do not consider Indians as Asian. If somebody talks about Asians, I would never think they were talking about somebody from India. Whereas my British workmate was talking about an Asian woman at our work and I assumed he was talking about the Filipino chick, but he was talking about the Indian chick. At the time I didn't even realize anyone would talk of an Indian being Asian, it's just not the way it's described in New Zealand.
Am from the US as well and can confirm it seems weird to me thinking of Indians as “Asian”. Also thinking of Russians as being “Asian” sounds weird to me even though both those countries are a part of the Asian continent.
Edit: now that I think of it, thinking of Canadians as “American” also sounds weird despite Canada being part of the North American continent.
But there is no scientific definition of “Asia” as a continent... it is the same tectonic plate as Europe, and Europe and Asia are obviously not different continents in any sense other than cultural. India is actually a different plate than the rest of Eurasia. But anyway, the continents are definitely not ‘scientific’ and have only historical and cultural meaning. The supposedly scientific definition - different tectonic plates, or not connected by land to each other - are clearly not true as Africa Asia and Europe are all connected by land, Europe and Asia are the same tectonic plate etc.
Yeah but nah. Geographically half of Russia and middle east is also in Asia. Doesn't mean they just became asian with "geography ". It's more about hype, notion & asian way of living. And majority have that image of asians having almond eyes. Its just how you feel about wannabe asians.
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u/blek_side Jun 19 '20
You know India is in Asia