"Europe" = West Asia?

**arian** · 12-17-2014, 06:22 AM

"Geographically, Europe is a tail to the Asiatic kite." [1]

Why do people call the western portion of Asia "Europe"?

It's not a continent.

South Asia is bigger, and has more people, ethnicities and languages, and it's not considered a continent. The same goes for Southeast Asia, which is also not considered a continent. The same goes for China, and it's only considered a country!

Nearly every West Asian language has its roots in another part of Asia.

Nearly every West Asian religion was founded in another part of Asia.

So why should West Asia be called "Europe" and classified as a continent?

Don't tell me it's because "Europeans" are white. First of all, nobody is white, or black. Have you ever seen a person the color of either of these hands?

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In fact, there is no skin color, and hardly a phenotypical characteristic, found in West Asia that is not found (or original to) another part of Asia or North Africa. You can hardly find a Nord, even, who doesn't look half-m

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"There is no such thing as a white race, much as this is talked of, but every white man is a faded or bleached one." (Schopenhauer [2])

The "distinctive culture/heritage" doesn't fly, either. Has Western Asia spread its religion, language, alphabet and philosophy further than South Asia has historically? Certainly not, when you consider Buddhism and the Sanskrit alphabet alone. Let's not even go into the South Asian-West Asian (Indo-"European") language "family". It's really the South Asian language family (which took root in West Asia as much as it did other parts of Asia).

There is no such continent as "Europe". As a common name for West Asia, perhaps the term could still survive.

That notwithstanding, the "E"U is AWAN- Association of West Asian Nations, a regional bloc like ASEAN (Association of South-East Asian Nations). Or we could call it WAARC- West Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, like SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation).

There are no "Europeans" in the sense of a people distinct from Asians. There are europeans in the phenotypical sense or 'eur' meaning wide and 'op' meaning face. But then there are wide-faced (hence european) people everywhere, right? It's just another term like dolichocephalic, prognathous, etc.

"Europe" is West Asia.

"Western Europe" is Far West Asia.

"Europeans" are West Asians.

"Western" means West Asian.

No 7th continent here...

Agreed?

Next up: Arabia is North-East Africa

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[1] Dorsey, George. Why We Behave Like Human Beings, pp. 44-45; quoted in Jackson, John G. "Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization" (1939); Retrieved 17.12.2014 from http://2017blackart.wordpress.com/20...ohn-g-jackson/
[2] Jackson, John G. "Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization" (1939); Retrieved 17.12.2014 from http://2017blackart.wordpress.com/20...ohn-g-jackson/

**Dani Cutie** · 12-17-2014, 06:31 AM

I´m not

**Also** · 12-17-2014, 06:32 AM

There is Afroeurasia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Eurasia

**~~Ctwentysevenj~~** · 12-17-2014, 06:35 AM

I suppose if you look at it, Europe is an extension of the massive Asian land mass. But overall, "Europeans"are quite distinctive From other Asians in looks and culture. Big difference between an Indian rural peasant and a Swedish person.

**~~Hadouken~~** · 12-17-2014, 06:43 AM

West Asians are the best

**zhaoyun** · 12-17-2014, 06:49 AM

It's all a historical coincidence due to Europeans rising to global dominance and introducing modern geography within a Eurocentric framework, nothing more than this. Europe is a large peninsula adjunct to the Asian continent.

The word Asian itself means nothing.

And Europeans are not any more unique than Middle Easterners are, or South Asians are or East Asians are. Each mega-region has it's own special uniqueness.

It's simply a historical coincidence and nothing more. There really isn't much else to say about this subject.