What is Asia from the perspective of Europeans?

Throughout the modern era, one could see the dominant "Orientalist" view of Asia from Europe-America. "Orientalism" refers to the depiction of Far Eastern and Middle Eastern peoples, presenting them as static, undeveloped and generally backward. read more

I think, for Europeans, Asia was ever a second-class continent. You see, even in Chinese, the name of Asia is "亞洲", literally meaning "second continent". read more

Geographical Asia is a cultural artifact of European conceptions of the world, beginning with the Ancient Greeks, being imposed onto other cultures, an imprecise concept causing endemic contention about what it means. Asia is larger and more culturally diverse than Europe. read more