"West Sea"

[Jonathan Lighter]

So the West Sea is the eastern part of the Yellow Sea?

JL


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:

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> There are a lot of web-mentions of the fact that the Yellow Sea is called
> either the Yellow Sea or the West Sea in Korea.
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> In 2010, however, CNN (
> http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/26/koreas.crisis/) defines the
> West Sea as the part of the Yellow Sea:
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> The West Sea, part of the Yellow Sea that is nearest to the Koreas, was
> the scene of Tuesday's shelling.
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> I didn't search for any earlier results.
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> FWIW, see also See also
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Japan_naming_dispute and
> http://defence.pk/threads/south-korea-calls-for-sea-name-change.175344/for the Sea of Japan versus the East Sea.
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> Benjamin Barrett
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> On Apr 29, 2014, at 9:16 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
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> > CNN now calls what was once the "Yellow Sea," the "West Sea."
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> > Is "Yellow Sea" now considered offensive?
> >
> > Acc. to Wikipedia, the name (translated from Korean) comes from the
> golden
> > tint of the waters, which is imparted by the down-flowing sands of the
> Gobi
> > Desert.
> >
> > "West Sea," of course, is blatantly ethnocentric. The area may be west of
> > Korea, but it is equally east of China. That makes it part of the
> > ethnocentric "East China Sea." Is it west or is it east? Up or down?
> > Someone must decide.
> >
> > And while they're at it, there's the Black Sea, the Red Sea, and the
> > transparently imperialist White Sea.
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