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Why is it called the "Mid West" when it is clearly in the East of the USA? Answer, because it's to the West of the only country that matters, Great Britain.
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Well... really, the midwest only -truly- begins west of the Mississippi river. I'll let Illinois slide, but clearly OHIO and even Indiana are not truly midwest. So no, it's not really in the east of the country.
That said, being a good and proper Anglophile, I'll accept the other part of your argument.
That said, being a good and proper Anglophile, I'll accept the other part of your argument.
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According to my parents, when they were growing up ~50 years ago, it was the near east, and indeed, the subcontinent and surrounding areas were the middle east. No idea why it changed....
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The Near/Middle/Far East thing is based on the perspective of 18th century Europeans, not on positions on a map. The Near East was the parts you could get to directly from Europe, the Far East was the parts you had to reach by going round Africa, and they filled in the "Middle East" to describe the bits that were neither one nor the other. (Iirc correctly, the term began with the British, who used it to describe the areas between the Raj and the Ottoman Empire.) The "Middle East" gradually supplanted the "Near East" after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, because Europeans and Americans can to think of the whole stretch from the Mediterranean to the Khyber as one strategic area. (I'd also speculate that the ambiguity of "Near East" in the age of the Iron Curtain had something to do with it, but that may be nonsense.) Likewise, "Far East" became distinct from "South Asia" where the latter had once been included in the former.
It doesn't make literal sense, but we shouldn't really expect it to, because these terms were never really meant to fill the uses we put them to. Most scholars, international organisations, etc. prefer "Western Asia", anyway, which throws the whole issue out of the window.
edit: tl;dr, what madviking said.
It doesn't make literal sense, but we shouldn't really expect it to, because these terms were never really meant to fill the uses we put them to. Most scholars, international organisations, etc. prefer "Western Asia", anyway, which throws the whole issue out of the window.
edit: tl;dr, what madviking said.
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madviking
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for sers, Ohio/Michigan/Indiana/Illinois/Wisconsin is another historical term. It was coined back when the westernmost part of the US just start barely in Colorado. Hence the Great Plains were what was called "west" and the five states I mentioned were the old "midwest" or "northwest". This is why Northwestern University is in Chicago and not, say, Seattle.
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This is the Midwest as officially designated by the US census bureau:
And for all your insistence that Ohio doesn't count, I've yet to hear a decent reason why, or an alternate designation you'd consider more suitable.
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I'd even argue that parts of pennsylvania should be consider midwest. Pittsburgh has a much more midwestern feel than east coast feel and is more similar to detroit and chicago than philly or new york.
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My question is can a router eventually wear out and just not work well? Mine hasn't been performing so well lately despite multiple factory resets. It's a linksys wrt g54 v8 and is 6 or 7 years old. Sorry if that question isn't off topic enough!
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If you don't like calling it the Mid-west we can always go to the non-PC "Flyover Country" instead.
Yeah, they're wrong. Their job is to count people, not try to incorrectly divvy up the country.This is the Midwest as officially designated by the US census bureau:
Why? Because I say so, and I'm made of 100% awesome, so whatever I say should be good enough for you. Always. As to an alternative... Northwest Territory.
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Does this answer your question? That router and another one that was a Linksys just slowly got worse and worse and had to be replaced. I found it quite therapeutic, btw. Give it a try.
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I don't know if anyone in these boards have worked a second job, but here goes;
How hard is it to work two jobs? Especially if on one set of days is on one shift and the other set is in another shift.
How hard is it to work two jobs? Especially if on one set of days is on one shift and the other set is in another shift.
It's pretty hard. But it is doable. The question is, can you arrange your schedules so that you still get a proper night's sleep, and you minimize the dead time in your day between the jobs? Also, do you have the stamina for it? Some of the questions can't be answered for you, you have to try it and see if you can do it.
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