# New PC BS...

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pc-bs/160318
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [March 10, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pc-bs/160318 "2003-03-10T15:41:27Z")
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### Author: ![ProjectOmega](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b487fb/32.png) [@ProjectOmega](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ProjectOmega)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-pc-bs/160318/61 "2003-03-11T23:16:35Z")

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> \*Originally posted by even sven \*  
> \*\*Well, it’s only “East” relative to the West. Who wants to be defined by their geographic proximity to someone else? Additionally, it encourages people to think of Asia as a unified whole that is utterly and completely different than what we know- they think “eastern thoughts” while practicing “eastern philosophy” and doing “eastern stuff” in general. In reality, Asia is a hugely varied place that blends in gradually and seamlessly with “the West”. It’s not some vast wierd monolithic “other”.  
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So “East” and “Eastern” are bad, but “West” and “Western” are ok? Because Europe (and more recently, North America) is “West” only in relation to Asia, which is terribly Asiacentric. Or maybe, when you have one massive continent like Eurasia, one half becomes “East” and one “West”, split down the middle? That makes sense, but maybe it’s too centralcentric. I still think “East is Eurocentric” a ridiculous complaint.

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