The first west asian instance on mastodon is an iranian diaspora one oh my god lmao
Yeah guess the country where the instance admin lives
Always the same country
Also hosted there so not really a west asian instance
Hello my fellow Iranian citizens. Who else is enjoying being bombed by the US
They got misskey in Japan
West Asia is the region that includes the Arab peninsula, Levant, Iran and Turkiye, basically the term “middle east” without the historical baggage of the term, my bad I didn’t clear it up
This region is also known as the near east, because the world is silly.
near, middle and far east are late 19th century terms. near east was the ottoman empire, far east was china and everything in between was technically middle east but it usually only referred to iran, arabian penisula and afghanistan (british india was excluded).
Near east was anything west of the Persian gulf that wasn’t the west, middle east was anything east of it until we got to the far east.
The “Near east” would include the Arabian peninsula, Iraq, Iran, the Levant, Cyprus and Egypt.
So yeah “Ottoman Empire” if you’re extremely generousTo quote wikipedia
According to the National Geographic Society, the terms Near East and Middle East denote the same territories and are “generally accepted as comprising the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian territories, Syria, and Turkey”.[6]
And
The term Near East was used to refer to the part of the Orient nearest to Europe, as opposed to the Middle East (then comprising the lands between the Persian Gulf and Southeast Asia)[3] and the Far East (East Asia and beyond), together known as the “three Easts”;
The West and the Easts implies that they are West and East of something, so, which do you think is supposed to be the center of the world in this system? Greek-occupied Constantinople or European-occupied Jerusalem?
… “The west”. There’s no actual axis mundi necessary here. And no axis mundi would be correct, because these are loose definitions made for ease of use by open white supremacists in a geopolitical context older than anyone alive
“East” is “East” of “West”.
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W…E
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West Asia…Japan
i did not need to see this my day is already ruined.
Welcome to !slop@hexbear.net, how may we ruin your day?
show me slop from hogs that don’t hit too close to home.
Right away sir
still asinine and hurts my head but at least i don’t feel personally offended. thanks.
/srs: Hope your day improves though 💚
/srs thanks but it won’t for the foreseeable future. some things just suck and you have to tough it out.
Yeah I know the feeling 😕
Mastodon is still twitter
Account name @faker with jojopyun profile picture.
league of legends fan, the worst kind.The second one has Sephiroth in the name, holy shit.
