West Asia is the region that includes the Arab peninsula, Levant, Iran and Turkiye, basically the term "middle east" without the historical baggage of the term, my bad I didn't clear it up

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This region is also known as the near east, because the world is silly.

[–] daniyeg@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

near, middle and far east are late 19th century terms. near east was the ottoman empire, far east was china and everything in between was technically middle east but it usually only referred to iran, arabian penisula and afghanistan (british india was excluded).

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Near east was anything west of the Persian gulf, middle east was anything east of it ubtil we got to the far east.

The "Near east" would include the Arabian peninsula, Iraq, Iran, the Levant, Cyprus and Egypt. So yeah "Ottoman Empire" if you're extremely generous

To quote wikipedia

According to the National Geographic Society, the terms Near East and Middle East denote the same territories and are "generally accepted as comprising the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian territories, Syria, and Turkey".[6]

And

The term Near East was used to refer to the part of the Orient nearest to Europe, as opposed to the Middle East (then comprising the lands between the Persian Gulf and Southeast Asia)[3] and the Far East (East Asia and beyond), together known as the "three Easts";

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The West and the Easts implies that they are West and East of something, so, which do you think is supposed to be the center of the world in this system? Greek-occupied Constantinople or European-occupied Jerusalem?

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

... "The west". There's no actual axis mundi necessary here. And no axis mundi would be correct, because these are loose definitions made for ease of use by open white supremacists in a geopolitical context older than anyone alive

"East" is "East" of "West".

Why are we being pedantic wrongly now?

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

But what is the West to the West of? Do you think white supremacists would define themselves by the East?

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yes white supremacists define themselves by not being of "the other" all the time! That is pretty much exclusively what defines "white" or "west" today!

Edit:I mean Australia and sometimes Japan get to be in the club, and look at a map!

[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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West Asia..................................................Japan