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WORLD IS ROUND DAMMIT!
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Um, navigation. Hello?
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Ever notice that most world maps look the same? 
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West/East make perfect sense once you accept that the U.S. is at the center of things. 
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Sea_of_inK posted:
Ever notice that most world maps look the same?
It's remnants of European imperialism that whats in "west" and whats in "east" is defined by their direction from Europe.
But as world is round what's in east also can be found from going west...so terms like "far-east" doesnt make sense...for americans "far east" would be "close west"
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The center of the map depends on what country made the map. East west language usage is also an english term.. People from the middle east dont describe it as the mid east except when they are translating it to english or for western peoples.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude
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The center was the middle east for most of human history
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