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I made this post because I've been feeling bleh about using "Middle East". Feels like a term made up by Usania, also feels like otherizing Anatolians-Arabians-Iranians, despite being from the Continent of Asia.
Idk why I feel this, but yeah. I also wanted to know how y'all refer to it (also want to know how I should refer to it, since I'm at a crossroads myself)
Near, middle and far East are names that come from antiquity (ancient Greeks). Anatolia, Syria and Palestine are part of the Near East by the way.
to anglos, the near east is vienna or something, that's why they call the near east middle east.