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WCDT: 2201-2205 (4-8 June 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Border Reiver:
Nothing like, "You're the new trainer, you have no prep time, no prepared lessons, no idea of what is formally required vice what you often do and no idea what the baseline for your trainees is- go."
HiFranc:
I'm wondering if Momo would have been a better trainer because I suspect anthro PCs have excellent memories, can research things quickly (e.g. training techniques) and Momo, unlike Marten, doesn't seem to be afraid of public speaking.
Y:
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--- Quote from: cvcharger on 06 Jun 2012, 17:45 ---Technically even France, Germany, Spain, and the rest of Europe are also in Asia because there is no true geological or geographical separation between Europe and Asia like there would be for other continents. That being the case, there should actually only be six continents, where Europe and Asia should be Eurasia.
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Yes, Eurasia is the continent, but that doesn't mean Europe and Asia don't exist as geographical and cultural regions. It certainly doesn't mean France is in Asia, because apart from the hazy area where they meet, the distinction between Europe and Asia has always been clear. And does it matter if they overlap? Many regions of the world don't have distinct borders. There is no true geological or geographical separation between Western, Central and Eastern Europe. Does that mean France is in Eastern Europe?
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Indeed not, and most geographers today are fairly agreed upon the boundaries between Europe and Asia. Geographically speaking, all of Armenia, for instance, lies in Asia, while most of Georgia is in Europe. Still, Armenians as an ethnic group would be called Europeans, since they culturally "belong" to Europe. The same might be said of the Turkish people, although many would disagree.
All in all, it might be best to avoid using the word "Asian" to describe a single individual, both to avoid confusion possible insults. It's much better to use terms like "Central Asian", "South Asian", "East Asian" and "South East Asian", but you'll still not be sure to avoid confusion.
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I always thought the Ural mountains separated Europe with Asia. As for calling people Asians would be because both the race as people of that continent could be called that, so people only use the former to avoid confusion. I guess that the word Caucasian could be a compromise as what to call people from West and North Asia.
For some reason I associate a Miss Hub(b)ert with an old teacher(even if I didn't had one with that name). So did we see any of new girls before somewhere?
Sorflakne:
--- Quote ---I still find it hilarious when people insist that the Americas are one continent based on the fact that there's no natural break between them, while at the same time claiming Europe and Asia to be two, under a test even Africa fails objectively.
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I just tell them to look at the boundaries of tectonic plates. This is why India is referred to as a 'subcontinent' even though it is quite clearly (visually) a giant peninsula in Asia.
--- Quote ---Why don't you ask her what* continent those countries are in? When she says "Asia", you reply with "exactly". I can't imagine she'd bring it up again after that.
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I do tell her this, and she still insists that they're not Asian. As someone mentioned above, she is Korean (she's only been in the US a couple years), and they take it to a different level. She's not racist or anything (she's married to a white guy), it's just the culture she was brought up in.
Lubricus:
--- Quote from: Y on 07 Jun 2012, 04:15 ---I always thought the Ural mountains separated Europe with Asia.
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They do, but the problem is the regions south of the mountains. The Urals become less of a natural barrier when you get as far south as Kazakhstan. Plus, the experts disagree on how much of the Caucasus range should be considered European.
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