Continents aren't real, they're just a thing humans made up. Nature doesn't really care and so any satisfying model is going to have weird exceptions and inconsistencies.
Were the particular set of exceptions and inconsistencies used for any <10 continent models chosen based on racism though? Probably.
There are plates, like geological continents. If you do that India, and the Arabian peninsula are their own continents, "Europe" is everything north of India except the most Eastern parts of Russia which are on the North American continent.
Yeah, but then if you accept some model of tectonic plates = continents, the tip of the baja peninsula, central america, and like the bottom 5 miles of chile are their own continents.
But even what makes up a plate is ambiguous. There's boundaries within the "plates" that just get lumped together instead of divided because they don't want 100 plates.
Continents aren't real, they're just a thing humans made up. Nature doesn't really care and so any satisfying model is going to have weird exceptions and inconsistencies.
Were the particular set of exceptions and inconsistencies used for any <10 continent models chosen based on racism though? Probably.
There are plates, like geological continents. If you do that India, and the Arabian peninsula are their own continents, "Europe" is everything north of India except the most Eastern parts of Russia which are on the North American continent.
Here's a map
Yeah, but then if you accept some model of tectonic plates = continents, the tip of the baja peninsula, central america, and like the bottom 5 miles of chile are their own continents.
But even what makes up a plate is ambiguous. There's boundaries within the "plates" that just get lumped together instead of divided because they don't want 100 plates.
I don't see why that isn't fine. Not like it hurts anyone