continents

[David Bergdahl]

Larry's point abt. Iceland is well taken: culture overrides geography for
most of us.  Ask people if Israel is in Asia and they hedge--less so than
Arabia or Yemen (although some people will say "Africa")--the hedge usually
takes the form of creating the Middle East as a continent!  India's
"sub-continent status" is another example.  We don't want geographical
(i.e. primarily geological) data to interfere with our notions of cultural
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