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>It has to do with the fact that Europe as a whole is not part of the classical definition of the West Everything depends on context. How far back is "classica
by vba616 3y ago
>It has to do with the fact that Europe as a whole is not part of the classical definition of the West
Everything depends on context. How far back is "classical"? If you're saying that the Byzantine empire or the Ottoman empire or the Ummayad Caliphate were considered not of the "West", I'm not going to argue with you but they're long gone, and I thought that the Byzantine empire considered themselves to be the continuation of the Roman empire even if Western Europe didn't.
I don't know much about the Austro-Hungarian empire, I think of it as "Western", though.
>The “non-aligned countries” aren't nob-Western in particular, or vice versa. Many of them were non-Western, some were Western
From what I've read, the original meaning of "third world" before it became pejorative was non-aligned countries in the Cold War.
I'm unaware of, say, Finland or Switzerland - nonaligned Western countries more or less, yes? - ever being considered "third world".
- dragonwriter 3y ago> From what I've read, the original meaning of "third world" before it became pejorative was non-aligned countries in the Cold War. That was the original sense, yes, but it was never particularly widely or popularly used in that sense. > I'm unaware of, say, Finland or Switzerland - nonaligned Western countries more or less, yes? - ever being considered "third world". Probably because "Third World” wasn’t a label most people (or the media) ever used in its original sense, it became popular mucb later as a another term for less developed countries, not in its original sense.