Since from an Asian point of view, it’s more to the west than to the east, right? Shouldn’t they be calling it “middle west”?
Since from an Asian point of view, it’s more to the west than to the east, right? Shouldn’t they be calling it “middle west”?
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People in California call Iowans “Midwesterners”, but presumably the relation between China or India and Arabia is too old to fall into that paradigm trap.
I’m in the Middle East (so technically Asia) and we call it the Middle East
No, we don’t in Arabic it’s just a western term.
Asian here: yes.
In Hebrew the term is “המזרח התיכון” which literally translates to the Middle East so at least the Asian language I speak does call it that
Where I am from, we called it Middle Earth
I live in the middle east and we call it that.
Diplomatically it’s referred to as West Asia here in India. But most people don’t refer to that region as that, they usually call it the Arab countries or the Gulf countries.
East and west relative to the standard world map. Not relative to where the speaker is located. We call the US the west from within it, not because it’s west of us.
People in East Asian still often say oriental.
The midwest.
Nir asian, but we call it Near East, maybe a. Slavic thing?
In Russia the term is ближний восток or close east
Turk here: Yes. “orta doğu” is literally translated to middle east.
I don’t know, but in Germany we call it “Near East”.
Yes.
I am Chinese Canadian. It is literally 中东 for us, which is Middle East.
There’s a song in China called “The East is Red” and it’s about China.