I've started volunteer tutoring at my local MLC Learning Center. I'm doing it for a number of reasons, but one in particular is that I wanted my own world-view shook up a bit. I read the papers and have progressive friends who travel all over, so I know (in theory) that things are quite different in many places than they are in my own quiet South Minneapolis neighborhood. But that isn't quite enough. I have long believed in the power of words and communication and felt that helping learners with English as a second language (or third or fourth, as I've come to find out) might be a good way for me to learn as well.
It's only been a few weeks and I am already looking forward to Monday morning's class. During MLC's training they told us that adult-learners are highly motivated and my group is a great example of that. They give me the compliment of trusting that I know the difference between a noun and a pronoun. (I do, but I have to dredge up the information from the grade-school part of my brain.)
This morning we were talking about sizes of communities and places: towns, cities, states, countries, continents. Someone said that there were 5 continents and I was ready to jump in with a correction that there were 7: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antartica, and Africa. But while we talked, I learned that many cultures don't include Antartica as a continent and consider North and South America as one continent called America. So already I've had my world view altered: are there 5 continents or 7? The grade school answer of which I was so proud doesn't seem all that important anymore, except, perhaps, to some penguins in Antartica.
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If you want a scientific answer, the continents are numbered by the major geological plates they ride on. There are about a dozen major plates, some of which are under the ocean, but the seven continents ride on their own plates: North and South America have separate plates; Antartica is a separate plate; so is Africa; and Australia and India share a plate; Eurasia is the final landmass plate. The others are beneath oceans. And Antartica is regularly inhabited by international science teams, even in the dead of winter. http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/tectonic_plates.html
Thanks, Lee. I love maps and geography but I haven't looked at this subject for decades!
Your note makes sense except for Europe and Asia: one plate, two continents? And why is India not considered to be part of the Australian continent?
It really doesn't matter. According to Bella, the center of the universe is located within the Franklin Terrace dog park.
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Pretty much the rest of the world classify as 5 not using the geological plates but taking into consideration land with no interruption and others.
A good example of "outside of the US" view on this issue is the Olympic flag.
5 Circles - one for each continent.
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There are 5 inhabited continents, that is why the Olympic rings are 5. America, Europe,Asia Africa and Oceania. A lot of the people in the US does not like this because they are used to calling themselves Americans which is completely inaccurate (like a Ffrench man being European and Italian not)In many places like in Spain we called them Estadounindences -US citizens, and you have groups like the Organization of Americans States, no the organizations of the Americas or something along the lines. Cultural imperialism is as powerful as military imperialism, and the US tries hard at both
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