“That is news here in the Colonies.”
Really? How many continents do US school geography lessons teach? When I read online sources such as Wikipedia or About.com (which I’d assume to be US-centric), they just talk about seven continents - Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australasia and Antarctica, as I was taught at school. I assumed that was reasonably universal.
We were taught that India is a sub-continent of Asia and that Indians are Indians not Asian. The Indian sub-continent is a seperate tectonic plate from the Asian plate.
Being 52 and long out of the school system I don’t know if they rely on Wikipedia or About.com as references in geology or ethno-anthropology classes.