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If we have a Middle East...

submitted by iSnark to ShowerThoughts 1.3 yearsJan 28, 2024 17:47:29 ago (+10/-0)     (ShowerThoughts)

Why don't we have a Middle West?


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[ - ] TheYiddler 0 points 1.3 yearsJan 29, 2024 07:02:34 ago (+0/-0)

The west is western Europe. The east is Asia. The middle east is part way to Asia. Middle west would be eastern Europe.

[ - ] oyveyo 1 point 1.3 yearsJan 28, 2024 23:10:14 ago (+1/-0)

No love for middle north and middle south? What about middle middle?

[ - ] iSnark [op] 0 points 1.3 yearsJan 28, 2024 23:37:49 ago (+0/-0)

Middle North = North Pole
Middle South = South Pole
Middle Middle = The Mysterious Island

[ - ] JoesLegHair 0 points 1.3 yearsJan 28, 2024 22:13:17 ago (+0/-0)

Because the people doing the naming were already on the West edge of the known world. Everything else was middle East or far East.

[ - ] iSnark [op] 0 points 1.3 yearsJan 28, 2024 22:25:56 ago (+0/-0)

I can see that, but since the world has evolved, they never thought to define the middle west? Lot's of possibilities. Germany, England, France +/-USA

[ - ] JoesLegHair 0 points 1.3 yearsJan 29, 2024 15:54:02 ago (+0/-0)

Well Western Europe was the center of the world to the people doing the naming so it's not going to be the middle west and for a while the Americas were called the West Indies.

[ - ] ProudRebel 1 point 1.3 yearsJan 28, 2024 20:13:47 ago (+1/-0)

We have a West israel. Sometimes called the USA.

[ - ] iSnark [op] 0 points 1.3 yearsJan 28, 2024 20:20:29 ago (+0/-0)

That'd be funny if it wasn't true! ;-)

[ - ] Clubberlang 1 point 1.3 yearsJan 28, 2024 19:56:55 ago (+1/-0)

Why don't we have a Middle West?

We do it's called Dearborne Michigan.

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 1 point 1.3 yearsJan 28, 2024 18:38:39 ago (+1/-0)

The bigger question is what is east? What is west? If something is east of somewhere, if you go the opposite direction, it becomes west of somewhere. Who decided east/west?

[ - ] JoesLegHair 0 points 1.3 yearsJan 28, 2024 22:14:10 ago (+0/-0)

The people that concur everyone else.

[ - ] JudyStroyer 0 points 1.3 yearsJan 28, 2024 22:59:43 ago (+0/-0)

Not unless you go south and fall off the turtles back. Or something. Ice wall. Yeah.

[ - ] o0shad0o 6 points 1.3 yearsJan 28, 2024 18:25:03 ago (+6/-0)

Nebraskans stare at you

[ - ] iSnark [op] 2 points 1.3 yearsJan 28, 2024 18:46:40 ago (+2/-0)

I was speaking on a more global scale. Say America, Canada, & England.

Love my Brothers & Sisters from the great state of Nebraska!

[ - ] PeckerwoodPerry 1 point 1.3 yearsJan 28, 2024 18:03:19 ago (+1/-0)

That would be the Atlantic ocean, hoss.

We don't have a middle west because there's nothing but water in the middle of the west.

[ - ] iSnark [op] 0 points 1.3 yearsJan 28, 2024 18:24:42 ago (+0/-0)

Depends on how you look at it. I would make the case that the US & Mexico could be thought of as the Middle West, but Mexico doesn't really amount to much, so then I thought America and Canada. But that leaves out the European nations. Maybe The US, Canada, & England... (It is admittedly a stretch...)

[ - ] Thyhorrorcosmic103 4 points 1.3 yearsJan 28, 2024 18:00:31 ago (+4/-0)

We have a midwest.

[ - ] iSnark [op] 0 points 1.3 yearsJan 28, 2024 18:25:16 ago (+0/-0)

Yes, but that's specific to America, I Was speaking on a more global scale. Say America, Canada, & England.

[ - ] Thyhorrorcosmic103 0 points 1.3 yearsJan 28, 2024 18:28:15 ago (+0/-0)

The midwest is the midwest no matter where you go in the world.

[ - ] iSnark [op] 0 points 1.3 yearsJan 28, 2024 18:41:48 ago (+0/-0)

But that's like saying we have an Iraq, Iraq is the Middle East. When you speak globally, you expect the Middle West to be represented by a core group of countries. As an example: The US, Canada, & England...

[ - ] Thyhorrorcosmic103 0 points 1.3 yearsJan 28, 2024 19:13:42 ago (+0/-0)

You should be thinking of the states as separate entities.

[ - ] iSnark [op] 0 points 1.3 yearsJan 28, 2024 21:15:31 ago (+0/-0)

The states are both separate entities, and part of a union of states. Is is proper to refer to the Mid-West when you speak of a section of the whole United States. So when I speak of a section of the countries, the states blend in to what is called The United States of America. So speaking on a global level, What group of countries in the West, is the equilivelent of the Middle East.

[ - ] Thyhorrorcosmic103 0 points 1.3 yearsJan 29, 2024 05:44:36 ago (+0/-0)

That is all irrelevant. We have a middle east AND a middle west. Stop moving goal posts.

[ - ] xmasskull 0 points 1.3 yearsJan 28, 2024 17:55:03 ago (+0/-0)

Due to some kike wrote"Central America",years ago.