the shift of continents...
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Originally Posted by Maciamo
So is Russian an Eastern countries, as it is clearly more East than Europe ? If not what about Turkey, Israel ? Is Morroco a Western countries because it is next to Western Europe ?
Yes good remark, Maciamo ! As time goes by and that continents shifts in extremely slow motion, the countries that are built on those continents will have a tendency to move extremely fast from "east to west", strangely enough !!! Ima-Sumac only knows where Israel and Turkey stand, especially if you compare them with the Palestinian country...
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Originally Posted by Maciamo
Are you saying that Chile and Argentina (90% of pure European descent) are not Western countries ?
Unfortunately, they are not considered as western countries, and that is all the "funny" (i should say bizarre) part of it since that they are, geographically, just as much "west" as US & Canada. Africa is about the same as Europe and they are not not considered western.
Somewhere, and it's far from being a conclusion, it make me sick that we have to adopt a system in which we now are forced to give graduate "appreciation" of one's location and one's "wealth-by-location". I'm an optimistic person and I hope it will change. But I wont be here to see it. I'm planning a trip back home to Venus...
Read George Orwell's "1984", Japan is part of Oceania now.
Under the term used in the book, Japan is now part of Oceania, the same goes for Singapore.
China seems to be also more and more becoming part of Oceania, the same goes for Russia.
In the end, most of the world probably will come under Oceania rules. Interestingly, the final frontier seems to be in the South East Asian area.
Of course, in the book, Japan and China was part of Eastasia, while Europe and the former of Soviet Union was part of Eurasia, and Oceania basically has the largest portion of the three countries.
The equatorial area (with exception of the ones in or near the American continent) were rarely part of any of these countries.
http://www.crcs.k12.ny.us/hs/projects/litcrit/1984.htm
Western = 西 洋 , Japan = 東 洋
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Originally Posted by Gaki
Neither is Japan.
Honestly, it is none of my business whether Japan is a western country or not.
But before (not as common nowadays), Chinese people referred Japanese as 東 洋 人 , Westerners of the East. So, if “western� is a relative term, then Japan is a Western country (the most westernized? more westernized than those Chinese people who called Japan 東 洋 ) in East Asia. (^_^)