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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Explorer: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Grumman: [b]MaximallyAbstract-Faith[/b] wrote: [b]''True that. East West North South and Central aren't agreed-upon regions with discrete boundaries of discrete areas and perimeters.''[/b] The four cardinal points [i]are[/i] discrete. The 'central' location isn't; it's non-discrete...yet central. Argyle 104 formed his argument around cardinal points whether he realized it or not...[/QUOTE]At the very least, i.e. when putting the question of geographical precision aside, if regions are to be typified by latitudinal/longitudinal directional indicators like "north, south, east and west", then there should be consistency in grouping regions that occupy the same general latitudes and longitudes respectively, with a single standard respective to the said parameters -- which in this case, either are geographical in nature; likewise should be the case, when the "Sahara" [which for some "odd" reason, became THE main geographical marker/divisor in "Western" discourse, pertaining to African affairs] is applied as a [geographical] dichotomous tool -- for instance, one can't say that say, Nigeria, is "sub-Saharan" and that Ethiopia isn't. That amounts to applying a double standard using a singular parameter -- "the supposed location vis-a-vis the Sahara" as the basis of classification. Looking back...[URL=http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=002154]Bantus, Berbers, East Africans, Northeast Africans, Sub-Saharan Africans...[/URL] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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