Personally a great fan of the CGP Grey videos. Continents in this case: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3uBcq1x7P34

When your mom gets in it

According to the image on Wikipedia depicting the plates, there would then be 17 continents, although some of those 17 would be entirely ocean, or only small islands

And then India is no longer in Eurasia. Or you could say that Los Angeles is not in North America.

I mean, it useful to geologists. Not so much to economists or sociologists.

This becomes even more confusing with the way people commonly talk in English versus Spanish. In English, residents of the United States of America typically refer to themselves as Americans, and in English “American” typically only refers to someone from the USA. In Spanish, it seems residents of the USA are typically called the equivalent of “United Stateser” and “American” refers more generally to someone from the continent, at least in some parts of the Spanish-speaking world. I once had an apparent native Spanish-speaker online argue that was the correct form in English as well and insisted that the official name of the country is United States (Estados Unidos), not United States of America (Estados Unidos de América), and that America never refers to the country in English. They didn’t appreciate when I asked why in international sporting events the Americans’ shirts always say USA and why the supporters chant “U-S-A” all the time.

Languages are weird. If you’re learning a different language and try to insist that the new language behave the same as your native language, you’re going to have a hard time.

Yep. In Spain and Latin America, there is no separation between North and South. Its just one continent: América

The USA isn't the only America nor the only United States. Maybe when the government collapses we can come up with a better name.

Well, they're in South America

It's not entirely arbitrary, it's just based on racism.

In elementary school we were taught that as well, then in middle school we were taught Central America is part of South America, but in high school we were taught Central America is part of North America.

Not always, I'm simple and easy to pin down.

I'm not sure New Zealand is real. It's not on my maps.

Always at war with Eastasia.

Same. I think having a tiny land bridge shouldn't be enough when the idea of a continent is to identify the largest masses of land separated by oceans, especially when disconnected land can still be a part of a contenent.

My list would be:

• North America
• South America
• Eurasia
• Africa
• Oceania
• Antarctica

I can see the combined Americas and Africa combined with Eurasia if the idea is land masses that separate oceans, but oceans are as arbitrary as continents so I don't think that is a useful definition.