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This map is innaccurate.
All the pages that include thsi image say "The far east as a cultural block", so I assume that this map is meant to emphasize "Cultural blocks" and not geography.
Culturally, Eastern Russia is not much more Asian than Western Russia, and should be considered European, unless you take into account the indigenous native Siberian people as being East Asian, but they make up a minority anyway. The Russians are slavs that originated in Europe and were settlers in Siberia.
India (As well as Pakistan and Bangladesh) is a very distinct culture on it's own. They are in fact Indo-European, I believe and the Indians are more closely related to Iranians than to Chinese. Indian culture is far different from East Asian, and should not at all be included on the map.
Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philipines and the islands are of Polynesian cultural background, completely unrelated to East Asia. Furthermore, many of those nations have become very westernized as a result of colonization.
If there are no objections, I will edit this map.--Fox Mccloud 00:23, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
