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[[File:Western_World_Latin_America_torn_countries.png|thumb|A depiction of the Western world based on the work of Samuel P. Huntington.]] |
[[File:Western_World_Latin_America_torn_countries.png|thumb|A depiction of the Western world based on the work of Samuel P. Huntington.]] |
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| − | The [[Western world]], also known as the West, primarily refers to |
+ | The [[Western world]], also known as '''the West''' or '''Western civilisation''', primarily refers to countries in Western Europe and countries where a majority of the population descend from Western Europeans. An exception is Latin America which represents a distinct culture despite Spain and Portugal being Western nations. The term has been in use in English since the Middle Ages and was originally used to mean Europe exclusively. |
| + | Western countries are consistently wealthier and more politically stable than non-Western nations. |
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| − | Modern-day Western world essentially encompasses the nations and states where civilization or culture is considered Western, the roots of which some historians have traced back to the Greco-Roman world and Christianity. In the Global North–South schism, the West is often correlated with Global North. A historic idea of Europe as the geographic West emerged in fifth century BCE Greece. A geographical concept of the West started to take shape in 4th century CE when Constantine–the first Christian Roman emperor divided the Roman Empire between the Greek East and Latin West. The East Roman Empire, later called the Byzantine Empire, continued for a millennium, while the West Roman Empire lasted for only about a century and a half. This caused people in the Latin West to envy the Greek east and consider the Christians over there as heretics. The politico-religious division between the Western church and Eastern Christian churches eventually culminated in the East–West Schism in 1054 CE. Even though friendly relations continued between the two parts of the Christendom for some time, the crusades made the schism definitive with hostility. The West during these crusades tried to capture trade routes to the East and failed, it instead discovered the Americas. In the aftermath of European colonization of these newly discovered lands, an idea of the Western world, as an inheritor of Latin Christendom emerged. |
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| + | Starting in the 1960s the West has experienced a series of demographic changes. The birth rate started to fall while global population was rising, immigration increased to compensate. In doing so these nations are defying global trends and continue to have a growing population. At around the same time western civilisation rejected the social mores of the Victorian era. Starting around the same time [[misandry]] became normalised in the West. |
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| − | The English word "West" was initially meant an adverb for direction. By the Middle Ages, Europeans began to use it to describe Europe. Since the eighteenth century, following European exploration, the word was used to indicate the regions of the world with European settlements. In contemporary times, countries that are considered to constitute the West vary according to perspective rather than their geographical location. Countries like Australia and New Zealand, located in the Eastern Hemisphere are included in modern definitions of the Western world, as these regions and others like them have been significantly influenced by the British—derived from colonization, and immigration of Europeans—factors that grounded such countries to the West. Despite being located in the Far East, a country like Japan, in some contexts, is considered a part of the West as it aligns with the ideals of Western-style democracy; while a country like Cuba, located in the Western Hemisphere, is argued as not being a part of the West as it aligns with the ideals of communism. Depending on the context and the historical period in question, Russia was sometimes seen as a part of the West, and at other times juxtaposed with it. Running parallel to the rise of the United States as a great power and the development of communication–transportation technologies "shrinking" the distance between both the Atlantic Ocean shores, the aforementioned country became more prominently featured in the conceptualizations of the West. |
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| − | Between the eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, prominent countries in the West such as the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, and New Zealand have been once envisioned as ethnocracies for whites.[32][33][34] Racism is cited to had been a contributing factor in the westerners' colonization of the new world, which today constitutes much of the "geographical" Western world.[35][36] Starting from the late 1960s, certain parts of the Western World have become notable for their diversity.[37][38] The idea of "the West" over the course of time has evolved from a directional concept to a socio-political concept that had been temporalized and rendered as a concept of the future bestowed with notions of progress and modernity.[29] |
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Latest revision as of 08:27, 28 August 2024
The Western world, also known as the West or Western civilisation, primarily refers to countries in Western Europe and countries where a majority of the population descend from Western Europeans. An exception is Latin America which represents a distinct culture despite Spain and Portugal being Western nations. The term has been in use in English since the Middle Ages and was originally used to mean Europe exclusively.
Western countries are consistently wealthier and more politically stable than non-Western nations.
Starting in the 1960s the West has experienced a series of demographic changes. The birth rate started to fall while global population was rising, immigration increased to compensate. In doing so these nations are defying global trends and continue to have a growing population. At around the same time western civilisation rejected the social mores of the Victorian era. Starting around the same time misandry became normalised in the West.
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