French native speaker here. Yes, his French is good. He has a slight accent but he is easy to understand. Mark has a much stronger accent, but it still kinda works.
My personally preferred system uses multiple types of continents for multiple use cases: A political continent = a useful collection of countries that are geographically close and share history. A geographical continent = A continuous landmass with area > 5 million km^2 separated from other landmasses > 5 million km^2 by either ocean or an isthmus
@@davidguthary8147 Geologists do frequently differentiate between oceanic and continental/land-dominated plates, so I could see adding that distinction to the geological definition, but honestly just using the term consistently is the most important and I’m comfortable calling the pacific ocean (or ‘East Oceania’ if you think the name makes it sound silly, with the Indo-Australian plate being Geological ‘West Oceania’) a continent in the context of geology, again, as long as it is used consistently.
@@Smitology You could technically have an “Asia” under the Aegis of a “political continent” or call the entity that most folks call “Eurasia” the simpler “Asia” but I honestly don’t find Asia as most folks think of it a useful unit for geology, geography (Eurasia is far more meaningful, with “Asia” being the main BODY of the continent, but Europe, India, and Asia Minor being better described as ‘subcontinents’ of Eurasia/Asia from a that perspective than their own things) OR politics (The major Regions of Asia are practically as important to understanding the world as entire continents elsewhere, and have far more unified identities than anh nebulous “Asian” identity does).
@@IONATVS I agree, for example people say Europe and Asia are different continents for "cultural reasons" when there isn't really all that much culture in common throughout Asia. Like name one thing in common between the cultures in Iraq and Japan.
Here is a continent question: what continent does Central America belong to? My wife, who is from Honduras, says North America. Since all of Central America (except Panama) was part of Mexico before independence in the 1830’s, this makes sense. Culturally, they are similar to South America and Mexico in North America. Another point about how messed up the whole topic can become.
A definition is useful for future interstellar colonization maybe. Im really into considering Australia just the biggest island of Eurafrasia, with America as the only other continent (just big landamasses separated by vast bodies of water), two continents model for the win, oh and antarctica is just a frozen ocean with an archipelago in it.
Any other topics that you like returning to? For me, it's the idea of where the actual continental borders are that's interesting to me. Some of it's so clear cut, like Antarctica, but others, like where exactly in the Darien Gap South America starts, seem more fuzzy.
13. There are 13. Northern America Caribbean/Central America Southern America Arctic Africa Middle East and North Africa Central Asia South Asia South-East Asia Oceania East Asia Europe Antarctica
As an Australian I'd say where part of Oceania socially/politically/Culturally and where our own continent with the extra parts Map Men showed techtonically because we don't have volcanoes like our neighbours and our earthquakes are laughably weak compared to them too .
In europe we concider rusia inceurope because 90% of its population live on the europian side of rusia as uts simplit down middle between asia and europe Problem is rusia is a empire that while it fell apart it held onto alot of land , yheir many ethnic groups in rusia
Greenland being "European" is actually not really true. Yes, there are people of nordic descent there, but the native population has more in common with the Inuit. so, politically, Greenland is European (because it belongs to Denmark), but culturally and geographically, it should belong to North America/America (depending if you split them or not)
Yes, I as a Norwegian that doesn't speak French agree with you. I concur that "slight accent, but otherwise yes, his French is quite good" is a correct statement!
Ah, yes, good take. Greenland should go to North America, so that they are in a different continent than their neighbours, and also in a different continent from Denmark!
If you didn't get this, Greenland is a territory of Denmark. That means Denmark "owns" it. Therefore it wouldn't make much sense to displace it into America, whatever definition you use for America!
French Guiana is at the northern border of South America and nobody is arguing that it's European just because it's under French control. Russia also exists in two continents under most understandings of the term. It would not defy precedent for Denmark to exist on two different continents.
gotta give some friendly criticism. I like watching your videos, but this one I stopped around the middle. The parts you cover are from episodes I haven't seen, and your pausing mid sentence and talking over the voices can make it hard to follow or enjoy this. And then I end up skipping what you say to hear how that sentence ends. Which is a shame, because that's what I'm mostly here for
Maybe, you meant only talking over? Because pausing is necessary for not talking over. And, yeah, he should pause, because by talking along with video he may miss some significant parts and active talk without pauses can annoy or confuse.
