hemiola 寫:
三腳貓 Three-leg-cat 寫:
而據在下了解是因為「中東」的所謂「東」，是因為以美國為地理中心而言之為「東」，而事實上，在亞洲為中心來說，要改為「西亞」或「西南亞」是「非政治化」或「再政治化」的行動。
講個和主題無關的。
「中東」一詞我想不是以「美國」為中心，而是起源以歐洲為中心的觀念，中世紀起歐洲就有這個概念，相對於他們的宗教和政治情勢而言的。
那時美國應該還不知道在哪裏吧。
謝謝指正，想必是在下以前聽有位專研究古近東文化（文學）的老師講課時欠卻了點留心了。但這樣提出仍有意義的，因為在 Firefox 中也有「中東語系」一詞。
以前旁聽課時一直都是聽「古近東」（Near East），是說過這個和學術界對那個範疇的通用說法。現在可參
Wikipedia 補充如下：
引言回覆:
Eurocentrism
Some have criticized the term Middle East for its perceived Eurocentrism. The region is only east from the perspective of western Europe. To an Indian, it lies to the west; to a Russian, it lies to the south. The description Middle has also led to some confusion over changing definitions. Before the First World War, Near East was used in English to refer to the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire, while Middle East referred to Persia, Afghanistan and Central Asia, Turkistan and the Caucasus. In contrast, Far East refers to the countries of East Asia e.g. China, Japan, Koreas, Hong Kong, Taiwan etc.
With the disappearance of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, Near East largely fell out of common use in English, while Middle East came to be applied to the re-emerging countries of the Islamic world. However, the usage of Near East was retained by a variety of academic disciplines, including archaeology and ancient history, where it describes an area identical to the term Middle East, which is not used by these disciplines (see Ancient Near East). So in shorter words, the term Middle East came about when the UK/French part of the world used the term. In German the Term Naher Osten (Near East) is still in common use.
The criticism of Eurocentrism is of course related to the fact that 'East' and 'West' are defined in relation to the lines of Longitude relative to the Prime Meridian or Greenwich Meridian and therefore inherently Eurocentric. This was a result of the British cartography standard being widely accepted in 1884 at the International Meridian Conference.
同上文中有則叫「西亞」("West Asia") 的譯法取代「中東」，印度政府也如是採用：
引言回覆:
Similar terms
In some ways the ambiguity of Middle East is an advantage, since it can be used in changing cultural and political circumstances. The ambiguity of the term annoys some geographers, however, who have tried to popularise Southwest Asia as an alternative, although with little success. Other alternatives include: West Asia, which has become the preferred term of use in India, both by the government and by the media; Arab world, which is used in some contexts, but excludes peoples such as Israelis, Iranians, Assyrians and Kurds who are not Arabs; and Middle East-North Africa (MENA), which is sometimes used to encompass the zone from Morocco to Iran. A similar term the so-called Greater Middle East is sometimes used, although it is so vague that it is not always useful, but corresponds to a common history of empires and civilizations including that of the Mediterreanean Greco-Romans and Persians as well as the vast Arab Caliphates and the regions where early Muslim Turks established their rule. It can encompass North Africa and Turkey in the west to Pakistan and Afghanistan in the east.
如果從中文版的使用者而言，改為「西亞」也未常不可。第一是在下認為「中東」的說法的確有點問題，只在幾時要改；第二，主流中文版的使用者不會太在意，而且趁沒有人熟習的時候改介面比熟習了才改的好；第三，「西亞」較適合並排在「字元編碼」中原以地理劃分的語系的基本原則。
可是想這個要各位討論得比較多，恕在下沒有足夠的學術「權威」可以權衡得合宜，所以不直接提出改動介面的建議。
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