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> Apparently I have moved south by migrating from Australia to India. Yeah, I we understand "south" to mean "closer to the equator". (That's kind of how it wor
by otabdeveloper4 1y ago
> Apparently I have moved south by migrating from Australia to India.
Yeah, I we understand "south" to mean "closer to the equator".
(That's kind of how it works in the popular imagination. E.g., southern Brazil is more "nordic" than northern Brazil.)
- chrismorgan 1y agoThat’s definitely not how I’ve ever seen it used in Australia or India. North and south are fairly strictly geographic terms. South India is roughly the southern half of the country—following a cultural and geographical divide, but pretty neat overall. Southern Australia follows the southern edge of the country (not to be confused with South Australia, a state in the south). One is in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern, but they use the terms the same way, pointing to the poles.
- spacechild1 1y ago> That's kind of how it works in the popular imagination It absolutely does not. South means, well, South. > E.g., southern Brazil is more "nordic" than northern Brazil.) How so? Southern Brazil is clearly closer to the South pole than Nothern Brazil.
- otabdeveloper4 1y agoIt's a racial term. "South" as in "dusky" or "brown", etc.