Most of the Rites in the Catholic Church are considered Eastern Rites. Pope John Paul II has compared the Western and Eastern Rites of the Church to our left and right lungs and that for the Church to thrive it must breath with both lungs.
Rite is more commom the United States and Latin America.
As Eastern Christians we have a particular style of Christian living all our own. The Christian Church was born in the Holy Land, what we call the Middle East today. As it spread, the Church took on the ways of the nations which accepted it. In this country, the United States, most Christian churches are 'western' because their roots are in western Europe, and their ways reflect the culture of the German, Irish or Italian immigrants who founded them. Some American churches, including ours, were started by people from Eastern Europe or the Middle East.