Saturday, January 3, 2009

East is West and West is East



(Source: http://xkcd.com/503/)

Yes, terminologies can be very confusing especially when the context is shifted. For Americans, what they call “Far East” is actually closer to “Middle East”.

2 comments:

Bhavya said...

That's cool...
Never thought over it.

Unknown said...

I wonder what Japanese call America a western nation or an eastern nation !