Things you're shocked people don't know
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Oh? I thought it was Eurasia.They've always been at war with Eastasia, you know.
Guess I need a refresher course in doublethink.
I'd never heard the name Oceania outside of that novel either.
Don't ask me, I didn't write any history books any of that I was taught.
We have states like North and South Dakota too, but that's different, they are states inside a country, as far as I'm concerned they are the same thing, even with the cultural differences, the states are STILL Brazilian territory and, in your case, American.
Now you have two different parts of one huge land of mass, called exactly the same thing except the difference beetween the hemispheres, one would logically assume it IS one huge thing, not two separate ones.
One would argue about "Oh but Africa and Asia/Europe are united too" yes, but they are not part of the same territory, one is African Territory and other is European/Asian, just because they are together doesn't necessary mean they are one huge territory. (You might think I'm contradicting myself, but no, America was divided by North and South because of economical and political stuff, Asia/Africa/Europe is another completely different story).
I need a cigarette
Most U.S. college intro. history courses seem to begin with some variation of the phrase, "Everything you know is wrong." I often wonder what some of those professors would do when confronted with a real elementary school classroom. They would probably go crazy and start shredding textbooks: "Wrong. Wrong. Sooooo wrong...Not even close...I didn't even think this was still taught....Gah!"
This whole continent dividing scheme is shady at best. If continents are continuous landmasses, then there's no reason why Europe and Asia should be two different continents since they're really pretty well connected. Yet no one teaches that.
At least Africa is only connected to Eurasia by a very small strip of land and nowadays not even that due to the Suez Canal.
So, the continents seem to be a bit arbitrary to me. I'd argue for Eurasia, America, Australia, Antarctica and Africa instead of what people are told in school.
At least Africa is only connected to Eurasia by a very small strip of land and nowadays not even that due to the Suez Canal.
So, the continents seem to be a bit arbitrary to me. I'd argue for Eurasia, America, Australia, Antarctica and Africa instead of what people are told in school.
We also had a discussion here a while back about the oceans. It seems that many people have never heard of the Southern Ocean.
This seems to fit your version the closest:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent
North America, South America, Antarctica, Africa, Eurasia, and Australia
Hmm...indeed, I have not heard of this. I was only taught that there were 4 oceans: Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic.
Agreed.
Likewise, North America is only connected to South America by a narrow strip of land which is traversed by the Panama Canal.
Aaaah, the hell with it. If this thread continues in this vein, it's going to resemble a bunch of obsessed Trekkies arguing about whether or not the bridge of the Enterprise faces forward.
The term Southern Ocean (or Great Southern Ocean) has been used in Australia for some time.
Just like the term Oceania. You Aussies just have to be different from the rest of us normal folks, don't you?
The term Oceania is more widely used than that. I've heard it as well, thanks to the qualification groups for the football World Cup (ah, the things football teaches you!).
It shocks me at work how much people expect me to know. I work at a state agency and people will call expecting me to know the intimate details of every other state agency. They will ask me about obscure forms they need to fill out for some other department or they need me to look up their file on the computer. Like there's a state-wide database where we keep every file on everything or something. "I don't have that information here sir, you need to contact the Health Department." "Yeah but I just need to know if the application went through, so can you just check that one thing?" Um, no. I don't get it. It would take more than a lifetime to learn the intricacies of every bureaucratic system in the state, so my 24 year old self certainly wouldn't know them. And no, I don't know what Form F76H2-O3 is.
