Lejano Oriente

"El término Extremo Oriente u Oriente Extremo; también, Lejano Oriente u Oriente Lejano, designa un área geográfica convencional ubicada al este del continente euroasiático, compuesta por una serie de países que tienen diversas culturas. Sus habitantes suelen ser llamados orientales. En genética humana suele llamarse a la región como Eurasia Oriental por contraposición con Eurasia Occidental. Habitualmente se considera una región constituida por las regiones de Asia Oriental y el Sureste Asiático, pero con frecuencia se incluye también a Siberia oriental y a veces al Subcontinente indio. Las denominaciones Este de Asia, Asia Oriental y Asia del Este (en inglés se denomina Eastern Asia, que es el preferido por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas) se consideran más modernas que el nombre europeo Extremo Oriente, que describe la región en términos geográficos de posición en relación con Europa y no su localización relativa en Asia; sin embargo, según algunos este término no equivale al de Asia Oriental, pues consideran que el significado es distinto. Caso análogo ocurría con los antiguos chinos, quienes llamaban países occidentales (Tàix, ) a todos aquellos al oeste de las Indias."

"The Far East is an alternate geographical term in English (with equivalents in many other languages see the infobox on the right for examples), that usually refers to East Asia (including Northeast Asia), the Russian Far East (part of North Asia), and Southeast Asia. South Asia is sometimes also included for economic and cultural reasons. Since the 1960s, East Asia has become the most common term for the region in international mass media outlets. Far East is often deprecated as archaic, offensive, and sometimes even racist. In 2010, The Economist commented: Remember... the Far East? If so, speak softly. Labels are handy ways of sorting out countries by history or geography. But lazily conceived and out-of-date ones are offensive and misleading.... The "Far East", as East Asia used to be called, is indeed far away from Europe but quite nearby for people who live there.In other words, "Far East" is inherently Eurocentric because it is part of a geographical paradigms in which even Western Asia is the "Near East" or "Middle East". Until the end of the 20th century, it could be argued that Europe was the "center of gravity" of the global economy, although even that is no longer true. The term Far East came into use in European geopolitical discourse in the 12th century, denoting the Far East as the "farthest" of the three "easts", beyond the Near East and the Middle East. For the same reason, Chinese people in the 19th and early 20th centuries called Western countries "Tàix ()"i.e. anything further west than the Arab world."