deadsunsanddyingstars:

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halfbloodbitch:

raptorific:

motherfuckers will say how things are “in Africa” like it’s one big place that’s homogenous throughout

but god forbid you say “Britain” when you mean “England”

but a country in africa is still africa

england and britain aren’t the same things

so i feel like that’s not the same at all

The time for stupid statements is over.

(Great) Britain is an island with approximately three small countries on it. England is one of them. People flip a shit when you mix up the name of the country with the name of the island it’s on.

Africa is the second largest continent on earth, and the second most continent, second only in both regards to Asia. It has fifty-four recognized countries, hundreds of different ethnicities, languages that number in the thousands

So proportionally, England is way closer to the same thing as Britain than any individual country in Africa is the same thing as Africa

Plus, the incredibly small country of England in particular spent centuries systematically erasing the cultural identities of the people living on the continent of Africa as a justification for colonization, imperialism, slavery, and genocide

So forgive me if I don’t take people 100% seriously when they flip a shit over the distinction between a country and the island said country is on, even though they don’t give two shits about pretending dozens of countries, hundreds of ethnicities, and thousands of languages are all basically the same thing

And forgive me if I’m not exactly civil to someone who insists there’s a major enough difference between England and Britain that it’s important to make that distinction, but that it’s not comparable to generalizing an entire continent because of a reason as stupid as “a country in africa is still africa.”

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