yikes but hasnt it already been settled
europe is the 3rd largest peninsula of afroeurasia
or something
i was also amused today to find as few as 227 google hits on this word afroeurasia
& all or most of them seemingly closely focused on the middle east
rather than on the entire land mass
comprised by the so called continents of asia & africa & europe
it is like nobody is even noticing this most elephantine fact sitting in our face
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Wolfgang Schaub" <Wolfgang.Schaub@c...>
wrote:
> There is another example: Central & Eastern Europe, loosely termed CEE. As
> it seems this term was born in 1989 when the iron curtain was lifted, and
> while all Europe West of the curtain was termed "West Europe", "central"
> appeared to be the 15 or so "new" countries from Estonia in th North to
> Macedonia in the South, and "east" was Ukraine and Russia.
>
> What I had learned in school was a bit different: "central" was Germany,
> "west" was France and west of France, "east" was the Soviet empire.
>
> It seems that in 1989 the center of Europe in the "new speak" has shifted
> eastwards. It would help if we knew what Europe is at all.
>
> Wolfgang
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com]Im Auftrag von Lowell G. McManus
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. Mai 2005 22:40
> An: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Betreff: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
>
>
> All such attempts at dividing the world into artificial regions are
> subject to
> poor definition and contradiction.
>
> Take, for instance, the once-common but now-seldom-heard term Near East.
> The
> Eurocentric part of the world saw, when it looked eastward, a Near East, a
> Middle East, and a Far East. Where was the Near East? In what is now
> called
> the Middle East! In fact, modern journalistic usage sometimes includes in
> the
> Middle East some northern African countries that were too far west even to
> be
> included in the original Near East.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Meynell" <knm@m...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 1:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
>
>
> >
> >>for example there doesnt appear to be any member in 2 regions or
> >>subregions which of course would be a geographical absurdity in view of
> >>the size & diversity of some of them
> >
> > I don't see the point(s) in arbitrarily dividing the world into
> continents
> > in the first place (unless you just have Afroeurasia, the Americas,
> > Australia and Antarctica) not to mention that Oceania isn't a continent
> at
> > all, but some people just like to do it.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Kevin Meynell
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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