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[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

You have to keep in mind that the US started on the east coast and then expanded west. A lot of the terminology we use goes back to those days, where everything west of the original colonies was "The West".

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Ah, it does make sense when you put it that way.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Similar to how the “Middle East” and “Far East” are from a European-centric persecutive.

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