No Shorts Allowed !!!

Alex, you are touching upon the topic that does not have a firm definition even now.Yes, most will say that there is a continent of America , although you will come across of North America and South America continents thing in some educational sources(altough I also disagree with that).Books will claim 5, 6 or 7 continents.Some even claim Eurasia to be a continent(Europe+Asia), since a continent is supposed to be ONE piece of land, and with that some claim that there is no ground to have Oceania(they will call that Australia).And one more thing:you forgot Antarctica. So it is a very unsteady topic, so there is no need to "make anyone look stupid" here.And mind you, that is coming from a guy who immigrated from Europe(Russia) 4 years ago, so you can count on my unbiased view. I do agree on some things that you brought up like "America will poke its nose into everyone's affairs" view(bombing Yugoslavia and war in Iraq as just few examples).I will also agree that a lot of Americans will claim USA is the best place to be, but when you ask them where they have been outside of America and what they know of other countries, the knowledge is limited(heck, I was once being almost PURSUADED by a girl here that Russia is not Europe , can you imagine my shock?And I come across people who will tell me that latvia, Lithuania, Estonia,Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus,Turkmenistan, etc. are not just weird regions of Russia, though they are separate independent countries of the former Soviet Union block with Russia as just one of them(15 total ), but I do not want you to generalize and bring that here, because I am sure most of us here are intelligent people... P.S. I do not know if you wanted someone else to answer that question, but I will take the role and hopefully not "discover America" for some by saing that America was named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian navigator who made several trips to America with Spanish and Portuguese expeditions and was first to point that America was a new continent, and not part of Asia.

Alex, you are touching upon the topic that does not have a firm definition even now.Yes, most will say that there is a continent of America , although you will come across of North America and South America continents thing in some educational sources(altough I also disagree with that).Books will claim 5, 6 or 7 continents.Some even claim Eurasia to be a continent(Europe+Asia), since a continent is supposed to be ONE piece of land, and with that some claim that there is no ground to have Oceania(they will call that Australia).And one more thing:you forgot Antarctica. So it is a very unsteady topic, so there is no need to "make anyone look stupid" here.And mind you, that is coming from a guy who immigrated from Europe(Russia) 4 years ago, so you can count on my unbiased view. I do agree on some things that you brought up like "America will poke its nose into everyone's affairs" view(bombing Yugoslavia and war in Iraq as just few examples).I will also agree that a lot of Americans will claim USA is the best place to be, but when you ask them where they have been outside of America and what they know of other countries, the knowledge is limited(heck, I was once being almost PURSUADED by a girl here that Russia is not Europe , can you imagine my shock?And I come across people who will tell me that latvia, Lithuania, Estonia,Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus,Turkmenistan, etc. are not just weird regions of Russia, though they are separate independent countries of the former Soviet Union block with Russia as just one of them(15 total ), but I do not want you to generalize and bring that here, because I am sure most of us here are intelligent people... P.S. I do not know if you wanted someone else to answer that question, but I will take the role and hopefully not "discover America" for some by saing that America was named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian navigator who made several trips to America with Spanish and Portuguese expeditions and was first to point that America was a new continent, and not part of Asia.