Europe is west Asia

Zarna Joshi
4 min readNov 5, 2021
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Nope. I’m not going to use the imperialist talking point referring to the Middle East as “west Asia” because I’m not an imperialist and because Europe is west Asia.

Look at the map.

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There is nothing that makes Europe a different geographical continent. There are no natural boundaries. It’s not even on a separate tectonic plate. It’s on the Eurasian plate (unlike the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent and other parts way further east like Eastern Siberia). Europe is west Asia.

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Notice how all of the major continents are on their own tectonic plate?

The only reason why Europe is held apart as its own “continent” is because white people live there.

Look at how Wikipedia tries to justify this obvious white supremacy:

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Europe is actually physically tiny. In fact, all Global North countries are much smaller than they are presented. And all countries, regardless of whether they are European or not, have a great weight of “history and traditions”. So that’s no reasonable excuse to name Europe a separate continent. Calling Europe different from Asia because of its “great physical size” and “the weight of its history and traditions” is pure white supremacy and imperialism and I’m not doing it.

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Let me show this to you again. This is how Global North countries (and their allies) are usually presented:

Zarna Joshi

Writer, organizer, spiritual activist, anti-imperialist, decolonizing smasher of the patriarchy, zarnajoshi.com, zarnajoshi.com/blog