is Middle East part of Asia?
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Yes, the Middle East is part of Asia, however differences is geography and culture, as well as natural barriers have brought historians as well as the general public to view the Middle East as a separate entity.
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Palestine is a historical territory in the Middle East, with parts of it now incorporated into the countries of Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Israel. \n\n(Historical note: for most of history, Arabs insisted that there was no such thing "Palestine" and that the land was actually just part of Syria)\n\nThe origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict are, simply put, that the Arab countries can't stand the idea of Jewish freedom and independence.
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For starters, and this is an incomplete answer, but the Eurocentric perspective does not see Europe as a western peninsula of Asia, but actually as its own continent.  Europe is it's own continent according to the Eurocentric perspective.  \n\nBasing its world-view on Platonic essentialism, there is something "European" about Europe and its peoples, animals, climate, etc, so that there must be something "Asian" about Asia's people, animals, climate, etc.\n\nActually, it's all pretty much the same.  Europeans are really Asians, but at around 1450, they were the most backwards region of the planet--they were the furthest from the great Asian empires of the time.  So they had to rally around their religion, Christianity, and become "superior" by virtue of their belief in Christ.\n\nLater, they believed themselves superior because of their race, intellect, rationality, peaceful nature--all the stuff that makes them see themselves as the pinnacle of humanity.\n\nAsians see Europeans as pink, hairy barbarians.  OK, maybe I'm overgeneralizing a bit, but Asians see themselves as a more ancient people, and not really "asians" at all.  There are Chinese, Koreans, Thai, Indians, Sikh, Japanese, Khmer, Pilipino (no "h"), Samoan, etc., each with a vast (if untold) history.  Each radically different from each other as German is to French, but still having religious and cultural roots.\n\nSo, where did the term come from?  From Europeans, of course.\nIn the Platonic world view, rocks are rocks because of their "rockness."  In the Socratic worldview, rocks are rocks because of their relationship to papers and scissors, for example, because of their connections to other things.\n\nNot all rocks are the same or course.  Diamonds are much more expensive compared to ordinary pebbles, but not because of their "diamondness," (the Platonic/essentialist view) but rather because it's related to market demand, war in the Congo, sellers and resellers each trying to make a buck, TV commercials, weddings and so on (the Socratic-Hegelian/dialectical worldview).\n\nSo it goes that Asians are Asians, but this really doesn't make us understand Asians, but makes an easy definition to "Europeans" and around 1450 and the coming rise of Europe, the Europeans needed to figure things out the quick and easy way.  They were going from bottom of the barrel in civilization, to masters of the universe, for good and bad.\n\nSo if you see the world from an essentialist perspective, then Europe (or Asia) is the center of the world, and everything else revolves around it.  If you see the world from the dialectical perspective, then you see the world as related to each other.  Europe would not be Europe without Asia, and vice-versa.  Each needs the other, the way diamonds need middlemen to become valuable.\n\nWhen it comes to economic integration, IJapan, India and China, to a certain degree are fostering cooperation over competition, because of the need to compete with Europe over markets and create new markets.  In other words, if India and China do good with each other, Chinese people will buy Indian products rather than European products.  This fosters an Asia-first perspective.\n\nTo read more--a tough but good read, read "The Myth of Continents" by Martin W. Lewis and Karen Wigen.
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Africa near the middle east.
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no\n\nOnly in parts of africa and asia I believe
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Well to make things more complex, a part of Egypt is in the Middle-East, over on the other side of the Sinai desert on the shores of the Red Sea.  Egypt fully controls the Suez Canal, so on the other side of the canal lies the Eurasian continent and the part called the Middle-East.  \n\nHowever, Egypt is part of Africa, make no mistake about it.  Many other African countries are arab countries, so that's no excuse.  Also Egypt is part of the Organisation for African Unity, a sort of an European Union for Africa, so politically they are part of it.
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I'm assuming that the company that puts out the applications just thinks Arabs will choose Asian, as the middle east is technically on the Asian continent.  I think it should be separate though.  Most people think of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. when they think of Asian, and the culture in the middle east is much different from the that of the  aforementioned countries.  Although as I've said before, it's just for statistical purposes.  I've put Alaskan Native before and no one said anything. lol
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Asia-it's on the Arabian Penninsula
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The Middle east is controlled mostly in name by it's official leaders. Religious leaders actually control most of the Middle East and Africa as well as parts of Asia.  These figures operate in a complex political environment. Their first goal is to oust seculer or semi-seculer governments like the ones in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Beharain, Nigeria and Turkey. Once replaced with Islamic governments under thier control they will rapidly expand into Africa and Asia.  They will be beholding to external forces though. The Islamics because of the represive nature of thier rule have killed thier ability to use and produce technology. As such a forign entity will gain control of them and use them to thier own needs. China is the leading cantidate for that right now.
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Asia Minor (or Anatolia)
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it was a part of the USSR.  It is in western asia, between turkey (to the south) and russia (to the north), and the caspian (to the east) and black seas (to the west.)
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I’ve heard that but forgot... It’s somewhere from the Middle East... Armenia or Azerbaijan perhaps...
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most of the biblical events were centered around the Middle East.  I don't know why it was a biblical hotspot, ask God (lol).  Most likely it was because it was near the "cradle of civilization" where Adam and Eve were created.
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you have a culture rooted in ancient times, and a beautiful language. iran is the middle east's dignity. i would like to have a visit there.
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There are lots of countries in Asia.\n\nJapan-Junichiro Koizumi\nS. Korea-Roh Moo Hun
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think of yourself in western europe where the term originated. You got the far, middle and near east's. Far is the asian pacific (china mostly), middle east is persia and arabia and n. africa, near is eastern europe(ottoman empire). North and south america not involved yet.
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Iran, also called Persia, is a Middle Eastern country located in Western Asia. Northern Iran is also a part of the Causauses. It borders Armenia, Azerbaijan (including its Nakhichevan exclave), and Turkmenistan to the north, Pakistan and Afghanistan to the east, and Turkey and Iraq to the west. In addition, it borders the Persian Gulf across which lie Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. The official name of the country is the Islamic Republic of Iran and Shi'a Islam is the official state religion.\n\nCapital Tehran\n35°40′ N 51°25′ E \nLargest city Tehran \nOfficial language(s) Persian \nGovernment \nSupreme Leader\nPresident Islamic republic\nAli Khamenei\nMahmoud Ahmadinejad \nRevolution\nDeclared Against Mohammad Reza Pahlavi\nFebruary 11, 1979 \nArea\n • Total\n \n • Water (%)  \n1,648,195 km² (17th)\n{{{areami²}}} mi² \n0.7% \nPopulation\n • 2005 est.\n • 2000 census\n • Density  \n68,017,860 (18th)\nN/A\n41/km² (128th)\n{{{population_densitymi²}}}/mi²  \nGDP (PPP)\n • Total\n • Per capita 2005 estimate\n$560,348,000,000 (19th)\n$8,065 (77th) \nHDI (2006) 0.736 (99th) – medium \nCurrency Rial (IRR)