• FreddiesLantern@leminal.space
    2·
    1 hour ago

    I wonder where the data starts.

    I mean technically each sperm/egg combo has the potential to become a human in some scenario.

    Did they include each time someone knocks one out of the park on their own?

      • FreddiesLantern@leminal.space
        1·
        43 minutes ago

        Depends on how you read it 🤷‍♂️

        “On each continent” it doesn’t necessarily say that if you were to fall outside of a percentage that you automatically are born on a different continent.

        (I’m just messin with ya)

  • wieson@feddit.orgEnglish
    81·
    19 hours ago

    Of course the europe-asia border is wrong, but the south america -north america border is wrong as well. It should be where Panama is.

    I see a lot of US Americans think that north America only has 3 countries. That’s false.

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
      5·
      24 hours ago

      One could say the map simply counted transcontinental countries as where the majority of the population lives, but French Guiana isn’t colored like Europe.

      Also interesting that the southern border of Mexico is apparently the border between North and South America.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
        63·
        23 hours ago

        Yeah the most interesting thing about this map is the weird biases on display.

        Personal guess?

        This was made by a white supremacist to try and push replacement theory/14 words type fears without tipping off the normies

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    2·
    18 hours ago

    I suppose this is the sort of map fear-fomenting rightwing racists would use to support their arguments about white replacement theory. It would be pretty effective. Sigh.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
    22·
    13 hours ago

    I would just like to point out that e.g. according to buddhist belief, where/how you are reborn depends on what you helped to create in your previous life.

    this is to be understood both biologically and psychologically. i.e. when you hurt someone, like your neighbor, chances are high that you’re going to experience the same action done to you in your next life, but also if you help somebody ofc.

    so the chance of being reborn in africa if you live in the US today are … low, i’d say.

    • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 hour ago

      How many of those countries have been subject to neocolonialism and CIA coups? Lots of people support politicians who want to continue stealing from and exploiting countries in Africa and elsewhere, so by that logic it seems to me that the chances are pretty high, actually.

      I don’t think enough people are being born in Palestine to accommodate all the American souls who karmically ought to be reborn there.

    • NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 hours ago

      It sounds like you’re internally associating Africa and the US with opposite “goodness” evaluations, but you never explain which way and I have no idea why you think your conclusion makes sense.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    32·
    2 days ago

    That’s an odd way to divide it up. Without Mexico, the US would be much, much lower. Every continent map shows Russia as part of Asia.

    • Skua@kbin.earth
      291·
      2 days ago

      For this specific purpose it probably does make sense to consider Russia part of Europe. If we go by the common Europe-Asia dividing line of the Ural mountains then a large majority of Russia’s population is in the European half, so most Russian births are probably in the European bit

      The weird thing about the Americas to me is that only Mexico, the US, and Canada are counted. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone that draws a dividing line between North and South America do so anywhere except at the Darien Gap, nor have I seen anyone put all of the Caribbean islands in South America. Iberoamerica or similar cultural region terms, sure, but South America the continent?

        • Skua@kbin.earth
          21·
          1 day ago

          As I understand it, Russia actually tends to reject the notion of a separate Europe and Asia. They prefer a six-continent model with Eurasia as one thing

    • Successful_Try543@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Maybe, as the capital of russia is in Europe, russia is counted as Europe, while Turkey is counted to Asia, as its capital is in its Asian part.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          101·
          2 days ago

          Well, yeah. The definition of “continent” is arbitrary.

          I could argue that there are only four, for instance (America, Afro-Eurasia, Antarctica, and Australia).

            • Skua@kbin.earth
              1·
              1 day ago

              Well yes, it is entirely arbitrary. One of the most agreed-upon factors is that “at least as big as Australia” is a requirement, but there’s no hard reason for that requirement

              Personally I think we should consider particarly big mountain ranges and deserts as continental boundaries more often, like we do with the Urals in nodels that separate Asia and Europe. “Asia” is such a huge concept as to be almost useless, and it’s not like China and Arabia had much influence on each other historically

                • Skua@kbin.earth
                  1·
                  20 hours ago

                  We just need better branding for them! Middle East and North Africa doesn’t roll off the tongue nearly as well as just Africa

    • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca
      5·
      2 days ago

      I think PNG is usually considered a part of Oceania and Indonesia a part of Asia, which is why it stands out. What borders are not intact?