East is a concept that is used synonymously with this . This term, in turn, can refer to the cardinal point , to that which is located in the eastern area or to the site that is located to the east of another.
For example: “To get to the lagoon you must go ten kilometers to the east” , “In the east of the city live the wealthiest people” , “To the east of San Lucas is El Oasis, a small place where about forty live people" .
In the Western world, Asia is called the East . In this case, the notion must be written with an initial capital letter, as explained by the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ) in its dictionary.
According to its proximity to the Mediterranean Sea, the East is usually divided into the Near East (also called the Near East , Near East or Near East ), the Middle East ( Middle East ) or the Far East ( Far East , Far East or Far East ).
There are no precise or exact definitions about the conformation of each of these regions. In the Middle East , countries such as Armenia , Turkey , Israel , Iran , the United Arab Emirates , Egypt and Saudi Arabia , among others, are usually included.
The Middle East , meanwhile, is sometimes used as a synonym for the Near East . However, it can also be limited to Southwest Asia, with nations such as Nepal , Afghanistan , Pakistan and India .
The Far East , finally, refers to East Asia . According to this delimitation, Vietnam , Thailand , Malaysia , Japan , the Philippines , South Korea , North Korea , China and even a part of Russia are part of the Far East .
The cultural differences between East and West are truly considerable. On both sides they generate a kind of fascination that probably resembles what we would feel when meeting a being from another planet. One of the points that first emerge in this search to contrast "our" world and the Eastern one is the relationship with work , and it is not at all negligible since in it we can notice the main features of these civilizations.
Let's start with our way of understanding the work: although it is not correct to generalize, and this would not help us to describe all the people of the East as if they were equal entities, we know that in Spanish-speaking countries we are not very fond of discipline or routine; We do not enjoy getting up early or bowing our heads to receive orders, but rather we tend towards conflict, confrontation, because it is difficult for us to accept that someone is "above us."
All this is worth debating, since from our point of view we should all receive the same respect , the same opportunities and carry a proportional share of responsibilities. But in several Eastern countries the figure of the employer is viewed with excessive admiration for us, as if he were really someone superior. In Japan, for example, this view of senior positions also extends to teachers and members of the government, and is reflected not only in their respectful treatment but in the language they must use to communicate with them, both orally and physically.
Similarly, and as an almost inevitable consequence, the view of themselves in the East is often relatively derogatory, distorted to their own detriment. For example, Eastern people have many difficulties expressing their opinions in public, and in fact they try to avoid it by all means; We Westerners, on the other hand, tend to love the attention of others and are attracted to the possibility of making our ideas public. In this way, Easterners also have a dangerous tendency to hide their feelings, something that leads to apparently unexpected suicides quite frequently.