>>>>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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>IIRC, if they didn't move it, some part of it belonged to asian mainland, the rest was on islands in asian waters.
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>I offered you a similar solution for Israel, as an island country, but you weren't able to name the surrounding waters. Still, that would be like claiming that Vatican isn't an european country.

Asian waters? I thought a continent was a land mass.

New Zealand and Cuba are two other countries which IMO are not part of any of the seven continents.