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Forums - Politics Discussion - Isis support in Philippines increasing and a battle to control a city (Marawi) has started.

konnichiwa said:
Aeolus451 said:
Ugh. This is actually a little surprising. ISIS will likely get stamped out there though. Asians don't really play around.

It is not that well known but terrorism from local groups in south asia is pretty common including peacefull countries like Thailand.

Same with indonesia. My countries neighbour. Makes me worried for a rising of extremism next door, Australia has always lived in a fairly conflict-free area.



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outlawauron said:
VGPolyglot said:

And you're changing the goalpost to "first countries you think of" from considering them Asian. You said no one considers them Asian. That is flat out wrong, as the UN considers them Asian, FIFA considers them Asian, etc.

And FIFA considers Israel as part of Europe. Confederations don't make any classification definitive.

No fifa considers Israel not as a part of Europe but because of the issues with israël and neighbouring countries Fifa made an exception for them.






Aeolus451 said:
VGPolyglot said:

Yeah, but you wre trying to say that no one considers Iraq and Syria Asian, which is just wrong. 

No one does consider them asian. You're getting hung up on semantics that don't make any real sense in a pratical world. It's outdated. It's idiotic to consider russians to be asians when they even don't. Nor does Syria or Iraq consider themselves asian.  

The "Middle East" is a term invented in Europe. These are all asian countries so these people are all asian. If you want to be more specific call them Chinese, Philipine, Thai, Syrian, etc...



outlawauron said:
VGPolyglot said:

I don't think you realize where Syria and Iraq are.

No one considers them in Asia. They're in the Middle East.

I consider them in both. 



Aeolus451 said:
VGPolyglot said:

Yeah, but you wre trying to say that no one considers Iraq and Syria Asian, which is just wrong. 

No one does consider them asian. You're getting hung up on semantics that don't make any real sense in a pratical world. It's outdated. It's idiotic to consider russians to be asians when they even don't. Nor does Syria or Iraq consider themselves asian.  

The vast majority of Russians live in the European part of Russia. In the Eastern part of Russia there are a lot of Chinese, Mongols, native Siberians, etc. 

Asia was a Nymph in Greek mythology and Greeks had little to no knowledge of China, Philippines, Thailand, Japan, etc.

Herodotos is the earliest source where Asia is used for the entire continent (or what the knew of it at least). Greeks divided the world in 3: Europa, Asia & Libya (Africa). 

The Romans had a province they called Asia:



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VGPolyglot said:
Aeolus451 said:
Ugh. This is actually a little surprising. ISIS will likely get stamped out there though. Asians don't really play around.

I don't think you realize where Syria and Iraq are.

I think he means South East Asia. You know the people which most Western people automatically assume is Chinese or Indian based on statistics and skin colour.



Please excuse my (probally) poor grammar

Before you all end up embroiled in a debacle involving semantics and linguistic fads, Asia Minor has been used to refer to anything east of the Bosphorus. The Near East has been used to refer to what would be considered Turkey, the Middle East is a rather new term used to refer to Arabia and Persia and the Far East to East and Southern/Southeast Asia.

East = Asia. The only exception is really Russia, which isn't an exception because most work in the Northern Districts that are between the Sarmatic region and the Urals, which are considered European.



Whatever the semantics and whoever the president of the philipines is (Duterte is a terrible human being anyhow). These murderers will be burning in hell soon.



CaptainExplosion said:
twintail said:
What is Duertes response going to be?

He'll probably shrug it off.

So I'll say it once again; Fuck you Philippines, fuck yourselves.

Well Fuck you too!

My people has been in this hell hole for decades and none of you gave a shit about it.

Be angry at the peverted old man all you want he's a politician but don't insult my people.



outlawauron said:
VGPolyglot said:

I don't think you realize where Syria and Iraq are.

No one considers them in Asia. They're in the Middle East.

They're on the continent of Asia therefore they are asians. Ignoring that just because you don't like it would go against reason.