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Not as much as you'd like to think of the "western world" is northern and western Europe. The "rest" of it includes, among other things, most of eastern Europe
by naniwaduni 6y ago
Not as much as you'd like to think of the "western world" is northern and western Europe. The "rest" of it includes, among other things, most of eastern Europe and pretty much all of South America.
- rbanffy 6y agoI can say that "What’s labeled centrist in the US would be considered basically authoritarian fascism in most of Western Europe" and it'd still be right.
- naniwaduni 6y agoYou'd be more right, and also it'd sound notably less impressive than the expansive claim about the western world.
- bawolff 6y agoThe "western world" as a term is understood to mean Australia, Canada, Catholic and Protestant Europe, New Zealand, plus the United States [definition from wikipedia]. Not saying that isn't silly, but everyone understands that the western world does not include those other places.
- naniwaduni 6y agoIt's a rhetorical bait-and-switch. It is "understood" to mean (essentially) Protestant Europe when making strong claims, but gesturing at the broader notion of West to imply a scale larger than that at which the claim is credible. In any case, even "Australia, Canada, Catholic and Protestant Europe, New Zealand, plus the United States" is too broad of a definition to make GP's claim true.