
Unlocked: Myth of the Month 8: "The West"
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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The Quintessential Westerner
Many societies that we could call western in all sorts of ways were not any more individualistic than china or the inca empire. Rit sometimes people actually distort the actual beliefs and actions of western thinkers to try to spin them as being individualistic. The quintessential westerner is the person who says, i'm a free thinking individual, just like everyone else around me. I see this as contradictory. Maybe other people find it satisfying. Lastly, another ideological definition you could put is to say, the west is sort of everything that contemporary people dislike: imperialism, capitalism and racism.
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