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The term orient is used to designate, objectively, everything that is in the east or right of a specific geographical position. In specific terms, Orient (in which case it is capitalized) refers to a region of the planet occupied by the continent Asia, a space located east of the Map and that it has always aroused great interest in the western world. Oriente is one of the richest spaces in resources, colorful, interesting and wonderful, hence the West has always tried to understand it, even if it has not succeeded by showing each world a different mentality. The name of the East comes from the Latin oriens, a term that refers to the idea of ​​being born, of appearing. This has to do with the appearance of the sun in the East, which is why the region was always related to the beginning of life.

Since time immemorial, the East has played an extremely important role in the development of the Humanity. Before the West led by Europe became the political and economic center of the world, many great civilizations had their times of splendor in the East, such as the Egyptian, the civilizations of the

Mesopotamia (present day Iran) and also the civilizations of the Far East like the Chinese and the Japanese that always followed great empires during the European power.

Although for the western world there is a tendency to simplify what the East represents as a great set of similar cultures and traditions, the truth is that wealth cultural and heritage of the East is immeasurable. Thus, within a country As big as China we can today find numerous dialects of the same language that we Westerners can not fully master. In addition, within the same continent we can divide three general regions: Near East, Middle East and Far East, each of them having a profile different. While the Near East is the space where the Arab countries and Israel are located, the East Middle is mainly occupied by India and the Far East by Chinese, Japanese and Korean. This serves as an example to see how such diverse profiles can be found in the same continent.

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