Eastern world
The Eastern world, also known as the East or historically the
The various regions included in the term are varied, hard to generalize, and do not have a single shared common heritage. Although the various parts of the Eastern world share many common threads, most notably being in the "
Conceptually, the boundary between east and west is more cultural, rather than geographical, as a result of which
Countries such as the Philippines,[5][6] which are geographically located in the Eastern world, may be considered Westernized in some aspects of their society, culture and politics due to immigration and historical cultural influences from the United States and Europe.
Overview
As with other regions of the world, Asia consists of many different, extremely diverse countries, ethnic groups and cultures.[7] This concept is further debated because in some English-speaking countries, common vernacular associates the "Asian" identity to people of East Asian origin,[8][9] while in some countries the "Asian" identity is associated with people of South Asian origin, and in other contexts, Asian regions such as the Indian subcontinent are included with East Asia. West Asia (which includes Israel, part of the Arab world, Iran, etc.), which may or may not see themselves part of the Eastern world, are sometimes considered "Middle Eastern" and separate from Asia.[10]
The division between 'East' and 'West', formerly referred to as
Culture
While there is no singular Eastern culture of the Eastern world, there are subgroups within it, such as countries within East Asia, Southeast Asia, or South Asia, as well as syncretism within these regions. These include the spread of Eastern religions such as Buddhism or Hinduism, the usage of Chinese characters or Brahmic scripts, language families, the fusion of cuisines, and traditions, among others.
See also
- Arab world
- Asia-Pacific
- Buddhism by country
- Christendom
- Continental union
- East Asian cultural sphere
- East–West dichotomy
- Far East
- Globalization
- Global East
- Global North and Global South
- Greater India
- Greater Iran
- Greater Middle East
- Hinduism by country
- Muslim world
- Near East
- Western world
- Westernization
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- ^ For example, "Asian and Indian people" are referred to in the New Zealand Heart Foundation's BMI calculator Archived 2009-05-31 at the Wayback Machine.
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And that, unfortunately, did not include any South Asians and only one Filipino. That caused a bit of an outcry. It raises a legitimate issue, of course, one about how 'brown Asians' often feel excluded from the Asian American conversation.
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- ^ Tromans, 6
- ^ from the Latin oriens; Oxford English Dictionary