There’s truth to what you’re saying but it also doesn’t matter. If it was somehow designated as “North Atlantic” or with any arbitrary label, you would still have a subgroip of those people thinking their superior and giving us phrenology, eugenics, Nazism etc.
Comment on The "western hemisphere" rubs me the wrong way
lavander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
The only explanation I have is dog whistle for some sort of “western supremacy“ 🙄
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It doesn’t sound simpler to you that people would naturally call what’s west of them “western” and what’s east of them “eastern”?
Like, if you’d pick any random place they’d do it the same way
If you’re mad other places adopted the European “point of view” for east/west, then logically your problem isn’t with Europeans. It’s the other places that just use the European definitions.
You’re mad at the only group who has a logical reason to use it, instead of all the places using it for no reason except to try and fit in with Europe.
Like, if Japan said China was the West and America was the East…
Nobody would give a shit.