There is North America, and there is a South America

[Horse with no Name]

Is it time yet for a middle America?

[radwriter0555]

1. You mean like Central America? The region that our Mexican American

Indian neighbors hail from?

[Horse with no Name]

3. No, I mean a middle America

A progressive land with enough funding for schools and hospitals.
With a Constitution that doesn't waiver from separation of church and state.
Where people are allowed to conduct their personal affairs privately without government or special interest group interference.

That kind of middle America.

[cornermouse]

4. Won't happen until the rest of the country gets tired of having Bush

and his failed policies around.

[Horse with no Name]

6. But what if our party came out with a Middle America platform

Using rhetoric to separate the America we want from the America they created?

[cornermouse]

7. I'm to the point where I think its just going to have to get so

bad that people stop, take a look around, and get mad. I don't think telling them is going to get anywhere.

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[Maple]

8. Yes, it's called Canada

[aeolian]

10. Mexican American Indians?

Do you mean the Mayans or the Aztecs?

Both two syllable names...far easier than ten. :)

[DawgHouse]

15. Not to make a big deal, but wanted to mention

that Mexico is part of North America.

[Fone Book]

2. What the fuck are you talking about?

n/t

[MazeRat7]

9. Theres Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, and Anartica too....

Hey, I remember that song from grade school.... *grin.

MZr7

[arcos]

11. For most of the rest of the world, there's ONE continent called America...

And it includes both North America and South America :P

[aeolian]

12. No...they pretty much see North and South.

It's hard to miss on a map.

[arcos]

13. Nope...

The division between North and South America is pretty much an American thing (not sure about the UK, maybe they consider it that way too and would be an English language thing). In Latin America and probably most of Europe, America is considered ONE continent that goes from the North Pole all the way to Tierra del Fuego.

[MazeRat7]

14. Well.. in that case you had better tell the teachers there are only 6.....

http://teachers.net/gazette/DEC02/continents.html

Not to mention cartagraphers... They think there are 7 also. *grin

MZr7

[arcos]

16. Yeah, English speaking teachers and cartographers think there are 7...

As a matter of fact, in lots of places Antarctica is not even considered a continent, and children are taught there are only 5: America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania (not Australia).

on edit:

"Most references in English assume that there are two continents, North America and South America. In American Spanish, however, the assumption is that there is a single continent, America. Moreover, the use of America to refer to the New World as a whole is also found, though less often, in English, such as in the common phrase "Christopher Columbus discovered America".

The single-continent concept also appears thematically; for example, the five rings of the Olympic flag represent the habitable continents; only one of the five represents all of the Americas."

<snip>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas

[MazeRat7]

17. You learn something everyday...

Looks like we are all wrong... Much to my surprise Europe is not on the list... Eurasia is....

Here: its easier to read than to explain. *grin

http://homepage.smc.edu/morris_pete/continents.html

MZr7

[arcos]

18. Interesting link, thanks!

I guess that explanation is the one that makes most sense of all, although I imagine there will always be 7 continents to you and there will always be 5 to me. :P

[MazeRat7]

19. No.. I think I am in the "it depends" category now...

Somewhere between 5 and a dozen or so... depending on definition. *LOL

MZr7