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Culturally yes, but it depends on context. As mentioned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world , during the
by mthoms 6y ago
Culturally yes, but it depends on context. As mentioned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world , during the Cold War and after, "Western World" was roughly analogous with "First world".
That is to say, (again, roughly) - "modern, stable, (primarily) capitalist, democracies aligned with Western Europe/USA".
So, in the context of geopolitics and political ideologies many people still consider it to include Japan and South Korea. Yours truly included.
Not that I care as much about the "aligned with" part anymore, but certainly the "modern, stable, democracy" part.
- Tiltowait-- 6y agoJapan is an Eastern country. If you want to define "the West" as "First World countries" you'd be wrong. There is an intersection between these two sets that does not encompass everything. Unless you're trying to say that only Western cultures can be modern stable democracies, but of course you wouldn't say something obviously wrong like that.