Why does /pol/ call it Western Civilization when it should be called the Northern Civilization + Australia?
>America
>Civilized
Sorry, 90+ only countries are allowed cuck
>russia
>>81070308
>all of Russia
>west
North of mexico <3
>>81070308
Because of the origins of the prevalent race in the traditional world map.
You forgot South Africa there
>>81070308
>it should be called the Northern Civilization + Australia
New Zealand btfo
>>81070308
Every country in the American continent is western, you Mongoloid. Nobody uses chopsticks to eat neither is any country predominantly muslim and all of them celebrate Christmas that's as western as it gets.
>>81070308
Argentina, Brazil, and Chile are majority white as well.
>>81070308
Western hemisphere ≠ Western civilization
>>81070765
> mexican intellectuals
Damn that Russia is a big guy
>>81070634
It's best we forget about them for the moment.
>>81070892
That map projection is incorrect desu
Africa is yuge and Greenland is relatively tiny
>>81070308
It's called western civilization because when the term was coined the Americas were undiscovered, so western Europe was considered the west of the known world.
The name just stuck I guess.
>>81070892
He doesn't afraid of anything either
>>81070308
South Korea and Japan are honorary westerners.
>>81070308
>Russia
>Ukraine
>Moldova
>Former Yugoslavia
>Romania
>Macedonia
>Belarus
>The Baltics
>Poland
>Finland
>>>>>>Western Civilization
>implying the entire southern hemisphere isn't completely irrelevant if not downright cancerous
the west of the northern hemisphere is all that matters
>>81070308
This is why no one takes you seriously leaf.
there is an eastern civilization
there is no southern civilization
polarizing yourself with something that doesn't exist is pointless
>>81070308
in political science it's known as the global north. it includes Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Israel(yes)
>>81070308
>>81070447
Fight me cunt
>>81070765
>3rd world country
>>81070308
>Australia
>Civilization
pick one, faggot
>>81070308
Relevant Civilization
Effective Civilization
any more?
>>81070308
All the History/PoliSci professors at my school called it North/South instead of East/West.
>>81070308
Holdover title, and technically the middle-east is a part of western civilization, they just went down a different cultural branch.
>>81070308
Australia is part of the northern hemisphere because it was created by it
It's called western to distinguish from the Asian and Persian civilizations which developped simultaneously within the same hemisphere
>>81070716
implying New Australia is not apart of Australia
>>81070308
In truth we should just call it civilization
>>81070308
>Australia
>Civilized
HAHAHAHA get fucked you drongo nz-seppo cunt