DLC20 Discussion (maybe, but why not?)

biggest_dreamer

biggest_dreamer
Veah said:
I guess you aren't teaching that countries can be on more than one continent? Which is ironic given that the US holds territories outside North America. Russia is all Europe up to Vladivostok, Turkey is either fully European or fully Asian, and so on?
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To the best of my recollection, Russia was generally cited as the one example where a single more-or-less contiguous country crossed two different continents. I don't believe we ever so much as touched on the US's non-state territories aside from Puerto Rico. I took the highest level honors "world geography" my high school offered, and even then we literally did not touch on the geography of Asia, Africa, or Oceania at all, and even Europe and South America were relative footnotes compared to the level of detail we went into for the US and specifically my state of South Carolina. "World geography", but only if you can get there within a three hour drive, apparently.

I've mentioned these before, but throughout school I'm not sure if I ever once heard the term "Oceania" used and was constantly taught that "Australia is both a country and a continent" and that all other Oceanian islands are "part of the continent of Australia", and also that North America consisted of specifically only Canada, the US, and Mexico - I was taught that Central America was a part of South America.
 

Thylaco

Thylaco
biggest_dreamer said:
I've mentioned these before, but throughout school I'm not sure if I ever once heard the term "Oceania" used and was constantly taught that "Australia is both a country and a continent" and that all other Oceanian islands are "part of the continent of Australia", and also that North America consisted of specifically only Canada, the US, and Mexico - I was taught that Central America was a part of South America.
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If you've read or watched 1984, that's set in Oceania and mentions the term a fair bit.
 

Villanelle

Villanelle
Since this is now a generic Asia pack, I really hope there is a Japanese animal in it. We're getting a couple of South Asian animals, a SE Asian animal, a Chinese animal. I feel like Japan is really lacking and I want to see it get some love.

My top hope would of course be the tanuki, but the serow would be cool as well. Those are really the only good options since we wouldn't want two deers (would we?) There is also the green pheasant, which would go beautifully with the cranes and provideth a birb

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biggest_dreamer

biggest_dreamer
Thylaco said:
If you've read or watched 1984, that's set in Oceania and mentions the term a fair bit.
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This wasn't a part of my school's curriculum.

NZFanatic said:
Is that why Americans constantly seem to think New Zealand is part of Australia? Because you were taught the wrong name for the region?

Geologically speaking New Zealand is actually its own continent, it's just that most of it is underwater.
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Ultimately I can only speak to my own experience, but yeah I imagine so. The entire old world outside of a superficial glance at Europe went entirely untouched, so the "conventional wisdom" that it's part of some greater Continent of Australia down there basically went uncontested. And again, this was the highest honors level of world geography my high school offered, and I say that not to toot my own horn, but to really emphasize how bad the whole thing was.

Now that I think about it, another super common one is the notion that the entirety of the Middle East is strictly considered to be Africa. I literally just encountered my wife (a lawyer! not remotely an uneducated person!) saying something to that effect a week or two ago. Geographical education and awareness here is dire.
 

Angeł

Angeł
Really actually hoping for a Sumatran Orangutan now.
The Bornean Orangutan model isn’t TOO bad, but if we could get a Great Ape with an up-to-date modern model, I’d be ecstatic. We’ve got some great monkey and gibbon models. Now let’s have an Orang!
 

Marvinb

Marvinb
Angeł said:
Really actually hoping for a Sumatran Orangutan now.
The Bornean Orangutan model isn’t TOO bad, but if we could get a Great Ape with an up-to-date modern model, I’d be ecstatic. We’ve got some great monkey and gibbon models. Now let’s have an Orang!
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The model looks well made, but doesnt really reflect what they actually look like irl
 
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