So is the US in the West or East?

[Poh SIti Dawn]

If you look at this map or many for that fact. It shows the US to the far west and Asia being to the far east, and Europe and Africa in the center. Now Europe is considered the west, right? Which means that we're placing the US in the center, implicitly.

But we consider the US Occidental, not Oriental, but its indigenous people are more similar to Orientals than they are your stereotypical Westerner, so before the US was established would it have been considered the East or the center of the world or what?

 

[Skooby]

Geographically it depends on where you are. If you're starting point is Japan, then the U.S. is more east than west.

But politically, the U.S. is part of the 'Western World' since this government was started by Europeans...and Europe is on the westside of the Eurasian continent.

 

[JahFocus CS]

Indigenous civilization does not fall into that Western/Oriental paradigm.

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

Indigenous civilization does not fall into that Western/Oriental paradigm.

What's it fall into?

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

Geographically it depends on where you are. If you're starting point is Japan, then the U.S. is more east than west.

But politically, the U.S. is part of the 'Western World' since this government was started by Europeans...and Europe is on the westside of the Eurasian continent.

I agree with this, but if we were being PC then its the east?

 

[JahFocus CS]

What's it fall into?

It is just separate. That West/Oriental stuff is bullshyt even in the confines of thinking about Eurasia, and certainly it is bullshyt when talking about anything outside it.

It's like arguing whether a Chinese person is Black or white. They are neither. These types of constructed binaries are not useful for trying to understand the world.

Europe was "west" of Asia, the "east." So they tried to divide it in that way, but geographically, Europe and Asia aren't separated. Culturally, there has always been exchange, despite what European racists would like to think (and that West/Oriental divide was constructed by them). Europe and its settler state offspring (the U.S., Canada, Australia, etc.) are considered "the West" in today's parlance.

 

[Brown_Pride]

where does a circle start?

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

where does a circle start?

Where does water go?

 

[MrSinnister]

We're definitely Western, even as Asiatic people were likely the Native Americans. Exposure to the sun is what's made up our definitive racial distinctions. But if you really want to nail it down, we are middle Earth, as we are broken away by two oceans with a very large chunk of land in between.

I also don't think Native Americans identify anymore with their Asian descendants anyway from the destruction of the land bridge. Their features are now their own, likely due to inbreeding and a lack of new Asian blood, with varying sun exposure. Very good question, but again, politically we are definitely Western.

 

[NZA]

the entire americas is considered "the west"; even latin countries. much like australia, the native people are completely disregarded when centering the cultural affiliation of the area in this east/weast frame

 

[Brown_Pride]

Where does water go?

1/2 of infinity?
What's north of the north pole?

 

[Ghost Utmost]

The US is absolutely the West. This is somewhat removed from the physical location.

 

[Amphibious]

It's all subjective fools.