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Originally Posted by craigs
Why did they exclude Mexico from North America? That changes the statistic significantly.
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The underlying causality (how cities are built, and how you make what choices you make to get to work) is cultural, rather than geographic. Although they’re using geography as a shorthand, Mexico shares much greater cultural affinity with Central America (the broader Aztec and Mayan influenced post-Spanish colonial cultural region) than it does with the United States and Canada.
It’s a smart choice, imho, and is similar to how Europe and Asia are broken into cultural regions. Still a lot of poor choices to complain about, though: Africa is not included in any way, either, which is the real problem. Neither are Australia/New Zealand and Oceania. And how exactly are they dividing Asia up? Are the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia included in Southeast Asia woth Vietnam, etc.? Or is Vietnam part of East Asia in this case?
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