Recent content by JohnBull

In this case, we're deliberately choosing to give a political conotation to the term. It's definitely not the only meaning possible. Europe is a very cohese geography, same religion, similar languages, a shared culture in way Africa or Asia aren't. If Europe hadn't conquered entire continents...

Precisely. We must keep in mind the last Russian czar was the grandchild of the British Queen, by definition the pinnacle of British society. They were part of the same system. When Revolution came (derived from an European ideology), Russia indeed diverged, became too big and different, the...

Today's China is very different from Ancient China, but it's still China. Ancient Rome and Greece are not West because they miss Christianity, the most important part of Europe's historical identity, the element that glued the whole continent together. However, Rome and Greece are certainly...

Again, who are those? Ordinary people in New York or Washington? Why not scholars in Madrid, clergy in Rome or media in Buenos Aires? No problem on using "West" as another word for "NATO" (I myself find it quite odd though, we can always say NATO), but it's obviously not the only meaning the...

What's the most ironic thing in this whole discussion is the fact of how Anglophone societies are the ones that use the word "West" more often than anyone else, while being historically the most anti-Catholic ones to the point of designing great part of their own identities in opposition to the...

Whose perception?

Chile is a bit closer to Western Europe than Poland though. Things like language or overall social attitudes which is expected being a direct offshoot of an Western European country.

West was a term used to replace Europe/Christendom when "Europe" was no longer confined to its original continent and turned Americas/Siberia/Oceania into its mere extension. However, for some reason, in Anglophone countries the term that was used to describe a 2,000 year/long civilization was...

This map is one of the weirdest fandom I've seen. I wonder how a person described as himself as a historian was brave enough to put this forward.

From the 18th century up to 1917, Russia was integral part of the European system, one of the most important player.

I couldn't find on Google Images, so I'd like to request the following flags for a Royal France based on those two: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_France#/media/File:Flag_of_France_(XII-XIII).svg and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_France#/media/File:Flag_of_France_(XIV-XVI).svg . A...

It's the god-like elite. That's obviously an absurd as the elite is human and as human they can indulge themselves on all kinds of fantasies, prejudicies and self-destructive behaviours. It's so weird as something so obvious for anyone past childhood/adolescence but we always see that coming.

Popular amongst Americans and people with specific interest on American history (like I have regarding the British). Other than that, people really don't care or know anything about it.

Back to the CSA thread, over the discussion another trope or bias occurred to me: That's a very strong idea that goes beyond CSA and go into all sorts of TLs: if there is a community of English-speaking White people, they'll necessarily become the wealthiest and most successful society around.

I meant in general. For instance, I'm not British and I'm extremely interested not in British history per se, but in British historiography. I have close to 1,000 books on my library, majority of it history and I'd guess almost 80% are by British authors. I won't assume, however, that's an...