Aeolus451 said:
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 It's outdated.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:
"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must" - Thoukydides
