POV: Dewey Meditations

If in fact we are, as the Flaming Lips say, "floating in space", are we residents of the North Hemisphere, in the words of The Carpenters, really "on top of the world"?  The Dewey is based on this assumption.  The Dewey comes from a Eurocentric perspective and sequences the continents in order that they were "discovered" by Europeans (940 Europe; 950 Asia; 960 Africa; 970 North American; 980 South American; 990 Australia, Antartica, and everything else).

So why does this matter?  Basically it can influence users in the way they perceive the importance of the value of one culture versus another.  Perhaps the Dewey 940-990s could be revised to reflect the timeline of human cultural development with Africa, the cradle of human origin listed as 940, followed by Asia, Europe, etc, reflecting the spread of human culture across the Earth.

To take this a step further, Norman Davies' massive tome, Europe, which covers the history of the alleged continent in exquisite detail, starts out by pointing out that Europe is in fact a peninsula attached to the much larger Asia.  This brings up the idea that the separation of Europe and Asia is cultural not geological. Just as Pluto lost it's planetary ranking, why not drop Europe as a continent and just meld it with Asia and call it Eurasia or something like that?  It would make total sense geologically and make it easier for students coloring maps to just color it one uniform shade.