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  Is Mexico part of North America or Central America? (search mode)
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« on: May 08, 2021, 11:14:35 PM »

North America. Central America is not a continent. Brazil and Mexico are not on the same continent. Cultural differences are one thing, denying common sense is another. If your culture dictates that the sky is purple, you're not entitled to your own facts, you are wrong. The Latin American traditional definition of continents comes from the Spanish explorers, who downright ancient and totally irrelevant to modern geography.

It is disgusting to claim that Asia and Europe are separate continents while claiming the Americas are one, to invalidate the lands and seas themselves in favor of this particular course of human history that created this one particular timeline. Some Latin Americans will claim that USAmericans invented the concept of separate American continents because something something anglo supremacy, meanwhile modern engineers armed with incredible technology are rebuffed by the Darien gap with separates our two continents.

The only valid distinction is between parts of North America that are or are not in the region of Central America, which is frankly just a fancy term for Southern North America. I would say that everything south of Mexico is in this region but not Mexico itself. Culturally it certainly has more in common with Guatemala than, say, Oklahoma but this isn't the point.
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