If I could redraw the Continents 

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"I am bored out of my mind so I will redraw continents." - Masa.

I think it's rather presumtuous to count Antarctica as one whole. I mean emperor penguins are nothing like adele penguins.

As a Spaniard, I feel like we're more related with the Greeks and the Italians rather than with the French or the Germans.

As a Nigerian, when I meet a fellow West African I feel a proper connection but when I meet an African from other regions, the only thing I feel connects me to the person is us being from the same continent. West Africans have a lot of shared culture, with Senegalese culture being one of the most influential because of the strength of the Wolof empire.

If I could redraw the continents, I would make Mongolia the center of the world to make Genghis proud

Masaman: Every EUIV player: You mean Commonwealth?

**estonia and finland on different continents** **nordic brothers have entered the chat**

As a spaniard, even if we supposedly have nothing in common with greeks, I think generally, we feel much closer to greeks and italians than to other nationalities.

In Swedish we have "kontinent" which means roughly the same as the English word "continent". but then we also have the word "världsdel", which literally translates into "world part". This isn't really a geographical term, but a cultural one. Eurasia might be considered a kontinent, but Europe is seen as a världsdel. I like this, as it doesn't seem as fuzzy and arbitrary as English might make it seem. People don't tend to use the term continent wrongly and we don't have to have long discussions whether Australia is a continent or not.

The problem with your maps is that they rely on current national boundaries, which often cross cultural groupings. Problem is, boundaries can't be as fluid and fuzzy as needed to define cultural boundaries.

I think the best way to split Europe is between the Northern Germanic Sphere, the Mediterranean Romance Sphere and the Slavic Sphere

Kinda weird that you think that Greece has more in common with Hungary, Croatia, Moldova, Romania and Slovenia than with Spain :P

Spaniards, Italians, and Greeks are actually all very similarly culturally, that is why they get grouped together in southern Europe

I actually think Spain Italy and Greece have a lot in common though Greece is a little removed because of the Slavic elements of its culture but those three are quite close. Also you may have pissed off all of the Hungarians and Romanians by Grouping them in the balkans same with the Czechs and Slovaks being in Eastern Europe.

As a Native Spanish speaker who has been to Greece, we are culturally far more similar than different. The people are virtually indistinguishable phenotypically speaking. Same applies to the Italian cousins

People who created continents: continents are just huge isolated landmasses on water! Europe: *exists* hmMmMmmMmmm

I always thought that Asia is a vague concept. Donno how the idea was formed, but to my Chinese eyes we are definitely more isolated culture wise, and Persians,Arabs(include North Africa maybe?) are historically and racially closer to their European counterparts.

"Technically Quebec is part of Latin America", I'm gonna start calling Quebecois Latinos

All my life I've been referred to as East African by others (mainly in the US) and have even referred to myself as such many a times. Being Ethiopian, I was always Habesha (which includes Eritreans), or East African (which included Somalia to the aforementioned). I assumed so because our three countries share a lot in common, are neighbors, and we more or less look the same so didn't really question it. Additionally, many Americans, namely famous ones, found Ethiopian/Somali girls good-looking and so would refer to them 'East African girls' in their songs. e.g. as early as Nas and as recent as Drake (Poetic Justice comes to mind). So I think this popularized the term East African to mean only Somali/Ethiopian/Eritrean (and also sometime but rarely Sudani, but really depends on how Arab they're feeling on that particular day lmao). To cut my rambling short, when I first moved to the UK I came to realise, Americans and even we have been categorizing ourselves wrong, and East Africans already exist and they usually refer to Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda etc., but not including my country or the other 2, which they call the Horn of Africa. My ex, who was Somali-born Londoner, said that she has never referred to herself as East African, and she just goes by Somali, or African. Whereas in the US, nearly every Horn African girl refers to themselves as East African, and when men back home say things like 'I want an East African shawty' they really mean to say Horn African. It's just been interesting to learn lol, and I sometimes wonder what those people from actual East African countries think about the hijacking of their term lol. If you're still reading this, have a good day!

I would put the Xinjiang region in China in the same continent as Kazakhstan and the others.

Continents are supposed to be geophysically distinct formations. To that end, use tectonic plates to define continents.

7:22 -- How do Spain and Greece have very little in common, seriously?!

So Bulgaria is in Eastern Europe and Serbia is in Southern Europe....

Masaman, how many hours does it take you to do research and finish a video?

i m a viewer from morroco and i love your channel. i have little request for you, as my english is not so good! could you please enable automatic subtitles translation? thank you very much, very good job

Greece and Spain have very little in common? Seriously?

Fun fact: Spain and Greece have a lot in common, more than the weather. Words, traditions, culture, history, people... Spaniards love Greeks, and we say that the Greeks are like Spaniards and Italians, but geographycly a little far away

"All Of The Above" Should Be An Option On The Question Poll Thingy.

your content is always awesome brotha!

Interesting Masaman. I always enjoy your videos and appreciate your efforts in educating and entertaining so many of us.

In Latin Améric, the word "America" is used tô reffer all "americas", central, south and North as a wholle

7:23 It's for historic reasons. Estonians actually *feel* Nordic. We have mixed feelings about including them in that term here though to put it that way... That said, the Baltic countries have been fought over by Sweden and Denmark quite a lot throughout the ages. And in the viking age while the Baltic people had their own language, religion and culture there was a *huge* amount of influence both ways in the region due to trade, raiding etc. For instance one of the Norwegian kings where said to once have been a slave in the Baltics and later became a friend with a local ruler there from what I remember. While they linguistically where closer to the Slavs then us Germanic people they where close enough to us for even intermarriages to not be all that uncommon. And they often visited *our* markets as well. And given all the raids they had to deal with from our vikings they ended up with a warrior culture that we could respect. Russia and other both east and west slavic people on the other hand didn't have that coastal connection with us till the Rus people emerged and took over control over areas like Novgorod etc... The west slavic people mainly dealt with the Germans rather then us here in the nordic region since they where too far away from the coast for us to have anything to do with them. And the south slavic people dealt more with countries in the south like the western and eastern roman empire (and later the HRE and Ottomans etc) As for England being included... Eh... England really isn't a part of North Europe. But they *where* a area highly influenced by the vikings given that half of the country was under Danish rule at one point and several other parts of the UK has had varying degrees of norse rule or influence. While I don't necessarily agree with the choices they've made I can certainly see *why* they made them. So in short. I do not feel that the Baltics belong in east Europe. But I don't agree with the UN about England being a part of north Europe. While northeast England *used* to be a part of what I'd consider North Europe the time under Norman rule and later as a superpower changed the nation into something more akin to its West European cousins. In my personal opinion Scotland, the Scandinavian countries and the Baltics makes up Northern Europe with some rural parts of north England that could go either way. (So essentially the areas of what used to be Jórvík in Northumbria being areas I'd say may qualify as potentially in North Europe as well as Scotland, especially Shetland, Orkeney, the Hebrides and Man, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, the Faero islands, all the various islands with Nordic people in them in the Baltic sea like Åland and *arguably* the other two Baltic countries.) Ps. Please read this: www.balticrun.com/the-vikings-of-the-baltic-sea/ I know, I know. It's not exactly a amazing source. But you get the idea.

Europe is so small and divided there’s no need for a separate classification

You consistently make quality videos. I have been watching you for about a year, and I can clearly notice that you have gotten better at making scripts. That's very satisfying as a viewer. Keep making great videos!

This is absolutely one of my most favorite videos of yours. And I have watched EVERY video on this channel.

Finland is modernized not because of "centuries of Nordic rule" lol. Its because of their internal policies in the 20 th century. Don't try to pull the old "west is best" type a shit, mister!

I use "continent" to mean "a logical grouping of contiguous landmasses", and I allow for some islands to be non-continental. To get finer distinctions, I use the term "subcontinent", which can be defined more arbitrarily, but generally should follow natural boundaries.

I LIKE HOW YOU DIDN'T HIGHLIGHT TASMANIA WHEN YOU SAID AUSTRALIA

For Europe, I actually agree with the UN subdivision more than yours. The Baltic states have a lot in common with the Northern countries, except for their 50 years of USSR domination. The Mediterranean countries of Europe also have a lot in common. "Eastern Europe" and "Western Europe" are harder to define. Balkans and Mid-European plane would be a more geographical division, while putting all the Slavic countries together with Rumania and Hungary is more reminiscent of their recent cold war history. I don't know enough about the others to make many comments on those.

4:19 King Mason's world. Hahahaha! love your content and style of presenting man, never change.

very interesting video, but why were you limiting yourself with country borders? (Kaliningrad, western Papua) also just a nitpick i would have put east europe and the balkans just into east europe, there isn't really that many differences to justify the split

I absolutely like all the job you're doing. i learnt more about my origins by talking ten minutes with my uncle, than by watching hours of videos online.

Very interesting, historical, and logical coverage. Thank you.

I love your content Massaman

I don't see why dividing some countries into multiple continents would even be a bad thing. Making Russia 'it's own thing' is quite disingenuous, since Western Russia is really different from the Far East and you can't really say the Western part is completely different from countries like Belarus and have no similarities. Dividing Russia into three parts would've been much better in my opinion. Southern Russia, Western and Eastern Russia. The same could be said for Brazil, where you group them together with Argentina and Chile. Also classifying Iran with Turkey is kinda iffy.

2 ads right after each other in the beginning. Damn, now I kind of miss the Adpochalypse.

You make shit I didn't even know I wanted till you drop a video. Keep up the great work bro!

I would use the major tectonic plates for the names as it has no cultural or historical bias as its just the earths natural land divisions.

What do you mean Greece and Spain have very little in common? As a greek i think Southern Europe is clearly where Greece belongs. We consider the south italians as almost greek and the spanish as very similar to us.

Thank you for another great video!

Great vid but Greece and Spain (both Mediterranean Greco-Latin countries) aren’t similar yet Greece and Croatia are similar?

I don't see colours well, i'm not really colourblind but it is hard for me to distinguish similar looking colours. Maybe you could show a version with more contrasting colours besides your relatedness coloured maps in the future

7:05 It seems a little weird to include UK along with Scandinavian countries.

It's amazing how Greece is Western European due to its side in the cold war, Eastern European due to its geography, southern European due it's geography and culture and part of the balkans all at once.

Very interesting work. Congratulations!

As a Russian, I see no actual reason not to include Russia in Eastern Europe. If Europe isn't a part of Asia because culture, why can't we just do the same with Siberia?

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To be honest, I think greece is much more similar to spain and portugal than the rest of the balkan countries.

The 'stan' countries have more in common with each other that Iran...???... Even though "estaaan" is Persian/Farsi suffix for "land of". Not to mention that Iran Tajikistan & Afghanistan all speak a form of the Persian language respectively. Or The fact that persianate civilization has had a major influence over Central Asia for millennia. Last time someone arbitrarily redesign the maps of the Middle East was the Sykes-picot Agreement..& how did that work out?

I use this methodology: Where did you say you put that arbitrary line? Okydoky there it is.

I do not understand, and therefore I do not agree? Could you please explain, in further detail what your current problem with the definition of "continent" is all about?

I do find it absurd that the same people who consider the Americas one continent (because they're connected) would still consider Europe, Asia and Africa separate continents.

fascinating thinking and a great deep dive on a fun thought exercise

next video will be "If i could change country borders"

Very interesting, thank you!! I find modern people have mingled so much, culturally and genetically (obviously some more than others), so trying to separate them into "cultural or ethnological continents" is not an easy thing to do. I find this great, btw!! (As for the greeks and spanish, we seem to have a few more things in common than just our climate, but again those similarities might exist due to the sun and the sea, or it's all just in my head!! 😁 )

It's a very accurate description. I see it the same way. 👍

Impressive analysis!

Masagenius, we Greeks feel much closer to south European countries like Spain and Italy than Balkans with which you associated us. I really never understood the way "ethnics" perceive the world, which surely is much different from the way we Europeans do

I would say Masaman is playing as god and should stop but... *He already is a god* Also I definitely did not commit tax evasion.

Where did you get the map at 2:18. I must have it.

Can we download a large graphic of your map?

Europe can be divided for his historical ways of agriculture in two great zones of influence that is the Atlantic Europe regions, and Mediterranean Europe regions. To the east you can add Continental Europe and Coast of Black Sea.

Here in Poland we don't like us being classified as Eastern Europe, we prefer the term Central Europe.

This is the sort of question I could spend hours researching and arranging, but I think there will always be groups of people who fit in multiple categories since everyone is a blend, one way or another. Educational to look into, though!

Great video! I fully agree with you!

Can you make a video about Circassians? I have a Circassian grandfather and I want to more about their history. How they became muslim and their relation to the Turks.

8:51 Thank you so much for agreeing with me on this!!!!

Could you analyze Pangea and which civilizations would pop where and how would they interact?

I feel the British isles isn’t Northern Europe although when I think Western Europe I think France ,Germany ,Benelux ,Austria ,Switzerland then I also count the British isles

In my opinion vietnam is culturally more east asian than mainland SEA countries like myanmar or cambodia.

2:18 where did you take this map from? :D

Coolest video ever. Nicely done!

Mostly agree with you, but I would put Vietnam under East Asia as well.

"If I could redraw the Continents" doesnt redraw it.... "If I could reclassify the Continents" would be more accurate maybe im the only one who thought you would be actually redrawing all the continents (one would definitely be a dick shape😂, why u ask? cos)

You are getting More and More productive!

As a geography geek, I appreciate your work.

As a hungarian I've never heard anyone considering us Balkan. Our cultures are very different from them (religion, habits, food, etc...). I would rather say that we are Eastern European.

Would personally redraw Latin America as: -Caribbean -Mexico -Central America (all central American countries excl Panama) -"Bolivar" America (Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia) -Southern South America (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and maybe the south of Brazil) -Brazil -Guyanas

On the poll on the beginning of the video I chose other, because I think of it being drawn as different cultures

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I order them by which will feel the heel of my boot first in my conquest of the world.

7:45 I'd like to understand what "The West" and "Western Civilization" are supposed to mean. Americans use those terms a lot and it definitely doesn't mean people who live west of Greenwich. I thought that maybe it means people whose culture has roots in the Greco-Roman world and which spread West, but it doesn't seem to include Latin America and sometimes I'm not sure if it includes Greece and Italy. It seems it's either a way to say "people I picture as having a culture not so different from us Americans" or just a euphemism for "white" or "normal".

Hey Masan! Was wondering if you might consider doing a video on the Karanwaka peoples of Southeastern Texas? That would be cool. Thanks!

Also nice portal song, I remember when I first heard it it is kind of haunting. Can you make a video on a world divided along drainage/river basins? With the smaller ones grouped up to stand a chance

I don't like Slovenia to be included in the Balkan region, but i would not put it in the east Europe either. And Western is a bit questionable too. So i don't know.

Some countries should be divided imo. For example, Western Turkey is much more European than Eastern Turkey, which is more Middle Eastern.

Mason, I have often redrawn maps for a variety of reasons.( Do you know any clubs or groups of compulsive map changers?) My favorite map l'm researching now is the immediate post- Flood families and how they would have developed if they had stayed within the three main branches: Shemetic, Hamatic, and Japhetic. Some people are mixers however so a fourth group is inevitable as everyone is ultimately related to each other from Noah and his wife thus from Adam and Eve or a monkey- whatever. Obviously, I don't consider this hobby odd although I don't exactly announce my Interest either.

I haven't seen a continent video in my suggestions since CGP Grey. Nice.

I don't think the idea of continents are ever going away. They are a simplified way to describe the earth. While your map is more accurate, the 7 continents idea has been used for so long, and not really broken or cause problems, so why fix it? Edit: but hey, what do I know, this is still a great video and amazing quality, keep up the good work. 👍