ShiftyPowers said:I didn't realize geography was so poor in some countries. North America and South America are seperate continents. How do I know? TECTONIC PLATES!!
You have to be a complete moron to advocate that North and South America are the same Continent. Just like you'd have to be an idiot to say Australia is not a continent. Just look at the geography.
A bigger concern would be "why are Isreal, Turkey, and Asian Soviet Republics in UEFA"?
In fact, according to the georgraphy, you should be more concerned with merging UEFA and AFC, but you're not saying that are you? Because you don't know what you're talking about and are advocating an artificial and baseless position.
You're wrong.
If we go by your plates 'theory' Europe and Asia are one continent and India is a continent by itself basically. Heck even the tiny Isla de Pascuas in the Pacific is a continent by itself too then (since it's located in the Nazca plate) :funny:
All in all, nobody is 'right'. In South America and several countries in Europe it is taught that America is one continent. Here in the U.S. it's different.
The perfect example can be found in the Spanish wikipedia: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/América (you don't need to understand spanish, just look at the map)
English wikipedia also mentions America as a big mass of land with 'subdivisions'
the Americas, the lands and regions of the Western hemisphere, usually subdivided into North America and South America
that's why, actually.
