ceirun said:
Esto de que sea nada más que una división acomodada inventada por los gringos me parece un argumento muy débil, a lo mejor solo creado por gente que está en contra de la política de EE.UU (de la que yo también estoy en contra, por cierto).
Creo que Everness ha dado en el clavo cuando escribió:
No creo que los gringos hayan decidido confabular contra el resto del continente y apropiarse indebida e imperialmente del nombre americano. Fue algo que simplemente ocurrio.
Hi, they should have told us in school that the number depends on the criterion...
From Wikipedia:
there is no single modern standard for what defines a continent, and therefore various cultures and sciences have different lists of what are considered to be continents. In general, a continent must be large in area, consist of non-submerged land, and have geologically significant borders. While some consider that there are as few as four or five continents, the most commonly used counts are six or seven.
7 Continents (A): Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Oceania, Antarctica.
7 Continents (B): Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Australia, Antarctica.
6 Continents (A): Africa, Eurasia, North America, South America, Oceania, Antarctica.
6 Continents (B): Africa, Asia, Europe, America, Oceania, Antarctica.
6 Continents (C): Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Oceania.
5 Continents (A): Africa, Eurasia, America, Oceania, Antarctica.
5 Continents (B): Africa, Asia, Europe, America, Oceania.
4 Continents: Africa-Eurasia, America, Oceania, Antarctica.
Two of the largest disagreements in listing continents are whether Europe and Asia should be considered separately, which distinction is valid from a Western viewpoint, or combined into Eurasia, and whether North America and South America should be considered separately, as geologists do, or combined into the Americas, a modern heir to the New World of the 16th century, as historians do. Some geographers and historians have also suggested grouping Eurasia and Africa into Africa-Eurasia (or Afro-Eurasia). Historians may subdivide it into Eurasia-North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, though.
The seven-continent model (B) is usually taught in the United States, while the six-continent model (A) is taught in other parts of North America and in East Asia. The five-continent model (B) is commonly taught in Europe and Latin America including the United Kingdom and Mexico. The five continents of this model (as shown by the five Olympic Games flag rings) are speculated to be the five permanently populated ones (viewing Antarctica as only temporarily populated, and all the Americas as one).
