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Argentina is part of the West. Unless someone narrows down that definition to mean English speaking West, in order to exclude us.
by the_af 4y ago
Argentina is part of the West. Unless someone narrows down that definition to mean English speaking West, in order to exclude us.
- notch656a 4y agoIt's a bit arbitrary but everyone I've met uses "the West" to roughly mean anything west of mainland Russia, east of the international date line, and north of the Tropic of Cancer.
- hazbot 4y agoIn Australia we refer to ourselves as part of the “western world” - despite the geography being nonsensical!
- nine_zeros 4y agoUnfortunately, Latin America is not considered the west by US and a lot of Europe. It shouldn't be hard to guess why.
- lezojeda 4y agoLatin America is too brown to be from the west?
- Mountain_Skies 4y agoArgentina isn't very "brown".
- nine_zeros 4y agoMost of America doesn't know that. They equate Spanish with Mexico.
- refurb 4y agoI mean most of Latin American is populated by descendent Spanish, and they have no issues with Spain being the “west” so I don’t think it’s race at all.
- Shaanie 4y agoMost of the time when people talk about western countries/civilization, they're not talking about Latin America, but rather about USA+western Europe, at least in my experience. Geographically it makes sense, and linguistically too. But culturally (debatable), alliances and wealth-wise not as much.
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- the_af 4y agoLinguistically? How so? Most of Western Europe doesn't speak a unified language. Many countries in Western Europe speak romance languages, one of them Spanish! Geographically it's also dodgy. Is Australia not part of the West?