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False. Westernism is broadly an extension of the academic notion of classicism, starting in Egypt and then Greece Rome and into Europe and the Americas.

• notepad0x90 1y ago
  It's not an academic notion (at least not strictly), since virtually everyone uses it routinely.
  • tsunamifury 1y ago
    Oddly since I got many downvotes with this statement, it's clear the average hacker news reader knows very little about world history or common knowledge
    • notepad0x90 1y ago
      That's very reductive of you. "western" like "3rd world" is used very differently than what you or academics would like.
      • tsunamifury 1y ago
        I feel like you didn't even grasp the base sentence meaning. "Classicism" is an academic concept