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Eurasia is the combined land mass of Europe and Asia. Eurasia is alternatively considered to be a continent, or a supercontinent composed of the continents of Europe and Asia.

Due to the perceived cultural differences between Asia and Europe by Europeans, it was traditional to consider the two to be separate continents. This distinction then spread to the rest of the world. Obviously, the idea of "Asia" as a single cultural group is not shared by "Asians". Asia contains a number of distinct major cultural, religious, racial and/or geographical groups, Indian, Arab, as well as East Asians and Southeast Asian among others. In British English, "Asian" often refers to people from the Indian Subcontinent. This is incontrast to American English, where "Asian" tends to refer to East and South East Asians. This can easily be explained by the fact that India and the subcontinent in general was historicaly the most important part of Asia from a modern British perspective, and that most migrants from Asia to the UK come from there, where as in the US, most Asian migrants traditionaly tended to come from the Pacific-rim countries, thus the contrasting imageries of the "Asian" in the cultural imagination of both countries.

Alternatively, some historians perceive much of Southern Europe, South Asia and West Asia as historically closer to each other than to their northern counterparts, creating a vague South Eurasia . Northern Europe and parts of Northern Asia create another vaguely similar cultural and geographic sphere known as North Eurasia.

The term Eurasia is also sometimes used to refer to the newly independent former Soviet states in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

The earth sciences, with a more precise definition of continent, more frequently consider Eurasia to be a continent in and of itself.

Eurasia can be geographically defined by subtracting Africa from the great land mass of Africa-Eurasia. The dividing line between Europe and Asia is traditionally placed along the Ural Mountains.

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People of mixed race whose parents are White and East Asian are called EurasianThe term Eurasian which is not related to the land mass of Eurasia, refers to those of mixed European and Asiatic ancestry, or increasingly, mixed parentage. In Southeast Asia, most have European names, often British, Portuguese or Dutch, and are Christia, though this term was originally used for people of mixed Indian (South Asian) and European ancestry.

Eurasia was also a fictional countryA fictional country is a country that is made up, and does not exist in real life. Fictional lands appear most commonly as settings in literature or movies. Fictional countries appear commonly in stories of early science fiction (or scientific romance). comprising approximately the same land area in George OrwellGeorge Orwell was the pen name of British author Eric Arthur Blair ( 25 June 1903 21 January 1950). Noted as a political and cultural commentator, Orwell is among the most widely admired English-language essayists of the twentieth century, though he is be's Nineteen Eighty-FourNineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes 1984 BooksEnthsiast.com) is a darkly satirical political novel by George Orwell. The story takes place in a nightmarish dystopia, in which an ever-surveillant State enforces perfect conformity among citizens through indoctrina, excluding the British Isles (controlled by OceaniaOceania is one of the three super-states in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and is the location of the novel's version of London, where Winston Smith, the main character, lives. It is composed of the two American continents, the British Isles,) and Eastasia, which was formed when China conquered the territory to its south, and presumably Japan as well. India was a contested border zone between the three superstates.