CatratchoPalestino

I promise you that NOBODY who wrote any work of literature containing the demonym "Western" was thinking about the majority inhabitants of Latin America, unless it was in the context of bringing in more whites to make the region into a clone of Europe.

I already prove this wrong citing Oswald Spengler. everything else you say is just a long nordicist spiel that’s very patronizing to latin americans

there is a substantial difference between describing this framework and saying that these countries (the governments? individual members of the government? interest groups that affect the government? sections of the public in these countries? some mystical racial/national spirit that compels people toward this inclination?) are all adherents to the framework, saying that this framework is a universal truth, telling latin americans they have to follow this framework as true and they’re in denial for disagreeing, and banning/bullying those who happen to disagree.

its not being owned by the country its being owned by a corrupt bourgeois family. honestly how naive must you be to trust these people while they pander to anti-americans. Ortega is probably the richest person in nicaragua its hard to say with howmany assets he has hidden but he is probably richer than Pellas

I can assure you that the vast majority of people in the world, and probably the united states, are not as clued up about white supremacist phraseology as you and when they hear the term western culture don't immediately start to think of roman salutes and blood quantum

not knowing spanish definitely plays a large part but I think more importantly they don't have to be bothered to live in and experience these places so they're perfectly fine remaining some idealized mental construct. its easy for them to imagine third world countries being full of rabid america haters and the politicians there being diametrically opposed to all cooperation with america rather than imagine that they're the same kind of self-interested assholes you find across the world. if ortega nationalizes some gas station chain its because he hates the west not because he wants to make himself and his family richer. any action can be construed as "socialistic" if you view it through this anti-america lens

they speak lots of english in vietnam doesn’t make vietnam western. and there are different types and styles of colonization and imperialism it’s not just a one mode thing

i’ve been to rural america with an “islamic name” lol. you people are crazy

trump committed treason by lying about the election results and telling people to go protest about it at the capitol? this is just a flimsy attempt to stop his victory next year

I'm palestinian honduran so I wouldn't even bother trying to argue with the few people I'd run into that seriously consider race what makes someone western. I still don't see why it matters so much to american leftists tho. is bashing on the west too awkward for them if you include poorer countries in the americas and balkans? I don't get the point in bashing anyway I'm not gonna feel guilty for being born in the west