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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