What is "America"?

The discovery of the Americas was hard for civilization to understand. Knowledge about the "new world" was mainly speculation or opinion. One could almost draw a parallel to modern day exploration into the universe. Many modern day explorers have spent time observing space and its vast uncertainty and still have no real legitimate understanding of it.

The reading sparked multiple ideas and thoughts about the classification of cultures that create the melting pot known as the americas. First, creating a definition of the "Americas" is difficult. I found that there is two ways of attempting to define "America". By culture or by geography. However, neither one gives a clear, or efficient, definition of America. Geography can be misleading; although Mexico neighbors the U.S. it can be classified culturally asfrom the U.S. and more similar to S. American countries. I prefer defining America by culture; a variety of culture mixed and scrambled into one that is separate yet together. Th separate at the "new world", or n. and s. america, has such diversity that its diversity is its only common ground.

The U.S. and Canada may make up the largest part of the Americas but they are also different and can almost be classified as separate from the rest. While other American Counties struggle with political and economic stability the U.S. and Canada have a different agenda. Understanding the Americas as a whole is difficult but feasible.