how come there's a "Middle East" and no "Middle west"?! amirite?

Isn't there a midwest in the US? We're western..so..there is yeah?

by Anonymous 15 years ago

Middle west would be the Atlantic. So the fishes are middle westerners

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Why would it be in the Atlantic when the middle of the Western Hemisphere is in the Americas?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Because the UK is also considered the west, so basically between America and the UK

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the U.K. was in the eastern hemisphere ...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It is but it is considered "the western world"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

East-side Reppin' ;)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Representin'. ugh... You put the East side to shame. smh

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You put yourself to shame. Only stupid people "shake their heads".

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Duuuuuhhhh, ya think so? I was shaking my hand like I do when I have to use the bathroom but I am too busy reading amirite posts. That is to say that my hand convulses violently about my wrist as my fore arm pivots along a single axis.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Wtf pickles...?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Nidwest, duh

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Because no one cares about Oklahoma.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Middle east was referred to as that by the Europeans to differentiate them from Asians (Far East)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I live in the mid-west.. wary

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Me too :[

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't. I just want to belong to something bigger than myself.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

These terms were invented by Europeans, and so they considered Europe the centre. China/Japan was the furthest East they were aware of, so that became the Far East. Arabic countries were still to the East, but not as far away so they became the Middle East. America wasn't even discovered until afterwards, but when it was it would have been the Far West as there were no continents further West on a flat map (though I don't think anyone ever actually used this term). Using this logic the Middle West would be the Atlantic Ocean.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Weeelll, It's called the Middle East because they used to go by where Rome was located. Everything East of Rome was, obviously, the East. So, there's the Middle and the Far East. But when the America's were 'discovered' and the map was 'completed' they drew in the North-West Hemisphere and the South-West Hemisphere. The call the Middle slice of North America the Mid-West because it's in the middle of the Western Hemisphere, no longer in proportion to Rome. ***That's what people (Americans) mean when refering to 'Old Western' films.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think the mid-west came from East coast Americans to refer to Americans living west of them but not as far as the West coast. But I could be wrong.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Central America

by Anonymous 13 years ago

There's no Middle-earth either. *epic sadface*

by Anonymous 13 years ago