Why America is always referred to WEST and countries towards India referred to EAST?
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The four directions come from when humans weren’t able to move around the whole world: they go back at least to the early days of civilization; and probably before. East is the direction the sun rises, West is where the sun sets, North is to the left of East, South to the right of East.
As Europe conquered/colonized the world, they centered the world on themselves. That meant “The East” was anywhere they traveled east to get to; and “The West” is anywhere they traveled West to get to (specifically, the Americas). Because there was so much east, they divided it into the “Near East” or “Middle East”; and the “Far East” (China, Japan, and India primarily).
Then World War II and the Cold War happened, and Europe was largely grouped with the US; which resulted in them being added to “The West”.
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