I'm not understanding why there seems to be so much anger in this simple thread which seeks to define "the west". Why are we on edge?
We're always on edge, we have alot to answer for

I'm not understanding why there seems to be so much anger in this simple thread which seeks to define "the west". Why are we on edge?
I'm not understanding why there seems to be so much anger in this simple thread which seeks to define "the west". Why are we on edge?
Actually, I'm on the edge right now because Bast made a reply to one of my posts that can only be explained by a failure to either read or understand it, and then proceeded to make nonsensical replies to my attempt at setting her straight. I'm in no mood to debate with someone who feigns not to realize that concepts, objects, and actors aren't equivalent categories.
Hehe... sorry. Not really that familiar with all the cultural intricacies of Eastern Europe.Well, we are not Slavs, and we're not in the Caucasus, yet we are colored in cyan on that map.![]()
? What is your modern day defenition of "the west" ?
I think that this phrase is thrown around way to much by conservitives, So I'll throw in my defenition - and hope everyone else does too.
Hehe... sorry. Not really that familiar with all the cultural intricacies of Eastern Europe.But I was right that you have always been hemmed between the West and Russia no?
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I define it as the United States, Canada, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand.
I don't really consider South America or Japan or South Korea as part of the West.
Neither Norway and Switzerland, it would appear.
Not really just asking you to learn about history, ...
So why is that I only hear about how evil white racist European imperialists invented imperialism and imposed their bloody tyranny on the rest of the World?
Pure hypocrisy to me.
I know that movie, "cultural teachings of Huntington to make benefit glorius nation of Czechistan"![]()
In reality it is not so simple to examine a nation, and even less easy to examine individuals and cultural trends, categories, movements etc.