>>>>I once corrected a Mexican that he too was a North American. That was an interesting conversation. He was complaining about those norteamericanos (North Americans). Some people in the Americas who speak Spanish do not wish to be associated with the word North American.
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>>>>Reality takes many forms! :)
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>>>Well, I couldn't convince Mike that Israel is an asian country, and that Natalie Portman is therefore an Asian-American. He somehow agreed that Dave Matthews is African-American, or at least didn't complain about that one.
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>>Any debate like that with you is a trip down the rabbit hole ;-)
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>>I still don't agree with you about Israel being an Asian country. Your starting and ending point seems to be that every country has to be on one of the seven defined continents. What continent is Indonesia on?
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>Mike, I don't see what there is to debate. Israel is on the Asian continent and therefore is an Asian country. But because we name the entire region as Middle East, which is not a continent, people have problems in recognizing this as Asia.
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>BTW, Indonesia is at the Asian continent.
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http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-continent-map.htmWe don't need to bat it back and forth forever. I just think the Middle East is distinct from both Europe and Asia, even if it isn't the name of a continent. It's not really important so over and out from me on the subject.
