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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (49 children)

Can someone show me on a map where "the west" starts?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (10 children)

A western colony primarily made of western settlers and completely aligned with imperial core countries is western.

It's a political term rather than geographic. Same reason why Australia isn't part of the Global South despite being in the south, because it's controlled by colonizers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Is it Israel that is completely aligned with these "core" countries because I see them as a terrorist state and I sit firmly in the west.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The most significant western governments still finance Israel's existence, that doesn't mean every single western person or even country gets along with Israel

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