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It is an apt description based on what people see, the connection between the larger two landmasses above and below. Whether it is the tail end of one continent and the isthmus between the two isn't important.
There's no racism here.
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Yes.
And it has also been a culturally separate region for thousands of years. Mesoamerica had advanced civilizations, while North America never had them. North America was sparsely populated before Columbus, while Mesoamerica had millions of people on a much smaller territory.
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What Croatian wikipedia says about Central America: https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srednja_Amerika
Central America covers the land bridge between North and South America as well as the West Indies, and geographically and geologically the land towards isthmus of Tehuantepec belongs to the continent of North America. Historically, Central America can be considered as an independent continent. Mainland starting from the isthmus of Tehuantepec to Coal Darien on the border between Panama and Colombia is called Central America.
This land bridge is predominantly Spanish-speaking. The only exception is Belize where English is spoken. English, French, Spanish and Dutch are spoken on the islands of the Caribbean.
States on land bridge from north to south:
southernmost part of Mexico
belize
Guatemala
Honduras
Salvador
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panama
According to our geographers, border between Central and Northern America is isthmus (strait) ot Tehuantepec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isthmus_of_Tehuantepec
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Belize is English speaking and no one considers it any less Central American. I agree this term is useless anyway. There is only North America and South America.
Problematic classification. Because:
-Not all of Mexico is Mesoamerica
-Most of Central America isn't Mesoamerica
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1st. There is no such thing as "Central America" considering Geography, there is only NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA.
North America as a continent was formed million years ago.
On most maps, Central America doesn't include any parts of Mexico, since they classify by country, and according to that practice, Mexico is entirely a part of North America. So it varies. Some geographers put the border between North America and Central America in the Sierra Madre of Chiapas.
2nd. This is without any doubt just one out of many examples how GeoPolitics is ran in various parts of world.
It's really arbitrary anyway, sort of like the geographical divide between Europe and Asia, which at certain points, it is more clear than others.
3rd. People accept this terms like blind, like they're complete idiots (even many of them aren't), they just accept it, they use it, without any questions asked.
Regardless of whether they lump the US and Central America in the same category so to say, the fact is the Mexican-American border is 1,954 miles long, with approximately 350,000,000 legal crossings per year.
4th. THE FACT is that "central" America is IN FACT a North America, yep, NORTH AMERICA, so why use this term? Because they speak spanish and because they are of half whites and half native indians?
Culturally it is not North America at all. Geographically it is. But to me it being in the cultural zone of Latin America makes its geographical location in North America meaningless.
IF "CENTRAL" America area was settled by AngloSaxons and if they would speak English today, would that term CENTRAL AMERICA even exist?
A continent is a large geological land mass, it has nothing to do with people. That's like asking if Canada is part of North America and using French Canada in an argument to prove it isn't.
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