21 Nov
2012
21 Nov
'12
4:51 a.m.
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de> wrote:
First: It's wrong. Australia is a continent, Asia is another one.
http://tinyurl.com/a7h94n7 Sociological Images has a post about the continents as social constructs. Asia isn't a continent by any measure of geography, it's part of the same land mass as Europe. You might call "Eurasia" a continent, but then we get to the issue of why the history of countries such as the UK, France, and Germany, has traditionally been prioritised over the history of countries such as India, China, Vietnam, and Korea. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/