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OP was categorical and wrong.

I'm specific and right, but in the wrong place (HN is Reddit nowadays, preach to the choir or downvotes).

It's not preferred. It's historically accurate and I'm not the one with the burden of proof. He asserted the wrong thing, but that didn't make you question him.

Hmm, I'd say the burden of proof is on you since you're the one arguing that one common usage among many is "right" and all others are wrong.

Then you're being purposely blind and not reading the comment that started it all

https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=35569350

This is so funny (and trivial). It really shows how people in this site and in most of these Reddit like forums operate nowadays.

Hegemonic views can't be challenged and are the default and logic will not be used.

> Just a egocentric convenience and the superpower influence.

This is completely wrong, unless your argument is something like there being only two continents. Which is fine but pretty far from how continents are normally defined and you should probably use a different word.

By far the most egregious continent border is Europe vs. Asia, and Africa is connected to those two just as much as the Americas are connected.

> never quite agreeing what north is depending on the political point being made

You get the same political fussiness around every continent border. But the geographic boundary is pretty well decided to be Panama.

To the flagged reply: There are multiple ways to count the continents, but the particular reason you mocked for listing two americas was just wrong. I'm not trying to force you to do it my way, but I want you to use basic logic.

And I don't know what your point is about central america. Nobody calls central america a continent.

Just to add to that, the poster's point is literally contradicted right in the cited article (Spanish wikipedia article on continent):

> En realidad no existe una única forma de fijar el número de continentes y depende de cada área cultural determinar si dos grandes masas de tierra unidas forman uno o dos continentes, y en concreto, decidir los límites entre Europa y Asia (Eurasia) por una parte y América del Norte y América del Sur (América) por otra.

Yes. That's done to appease the anglos because Historically, it doesn't work like that and, fun fact, nobody but me jumped at OP who said, for all intents and purposes, "the Anglo way is the only way" but when I come with the non Anglo centric view, that's when the users jump and come quickly to correct people.

It's just a great exercise of how these sites work. And that goes for more consequential stuff than this.