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To: Republicain
BTW, in the United States, sort of opposite to your (Europe and Turkey) situation, some people cut out Mexico and Central America from North America because those countries a not as culturally as similar as the United States and Canada, when those countries are definitely part of geographic North America.

P.S. in France, are the Americas split up into North and South America, or a both continents considered one? it would be absurd for that to be the case and Europe and Asia to be two separate continents. North and South America are as separated as Eurasia and Africa.

17 posted on 07/24/2006 4:32:56 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( http://www.answersingenesis.org)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
BTW, in the United States, sort of opposite to your (Europe and Turkey) situation, some people cut out Mexico and Central America from North America because those countries a not as culturally as similar as the United States and Canada, when those countries are definitely part of geographic North America.

Are you considering that the natural geographical issues are what draw the borders of civilisations ? This is absurd. Especially in Europe with his more than 3 thousand years old history. Look at a map of Europe an you will see that most of the borders are not geographical but historical, political and religious. The actual border between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, for instance, marks exactly the border between the Christian world (croatia) and the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century. Less than 10% of Turkey is on the geographical Europe. Is it enough to say that Turkey is a European country ? Of course not ! Things are far more complicated.

24 posted on 07/24/2006 4:57:08 AM PDT by Republicain
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