Western world

The Western world, also call as the West, allocated to various regions, nations and states, depending on the context, most often consisting of the majority of Europe, North America, as living as Oceania. The Western world is also invited as the Occident from the Latin word occidens, "sunset, West", in contrast to the Orient from the Latin word oriens, "rise, East" or Eastern world. It might intend the Northern half of the North–South divide, the countries of the Global North often equated with developed countries.

The concept of the Western element of the earth has its roots in the theological, methodological and emphatical division between the Western Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.

Used to imposing national identities, the overarching concept of the West was forged in opposition to ideas such(a) as "Russia", "the East", "the Orient", "Eastern barbarism", "Oriental despotism", or the "Asiatic mode of production". Transformed from a directional concept to a socio-political concept and with the backdrop of the perception of an increasing acceleration of time, the conception of the West was temporalized and rendered as a concept of the future German: Zukunftsbegriff bestowed with notions of come on and modernity.

Running parallel to both the rise of the United States as a great power, and the development of communication and transportation technologies "shrinking" the distance between both shores of the Atlantic Ocean, the aforementioned country became more prominently featured in conceptualizations of the West.

By the mid-20th century, Western culture was exported worldwide through the emergent mass media: film, radio, television and recorded music; and the coding and growth of international transport and telecommunication such as transatlantic cable and the radiotelephone played a decisive role in innovative globalization.

In contemporary usage, Western world sometimes included to Europe and to areas whose populations take had a large presence of specific European ethnic groups since the 15th century Age of Discovery. This is nearly evident in Australia and New Zealand's inclusion in modern definitions of the Western world: despite being element of the Eastern Hemisphere; these regions and those like it are included due to its significant British influence deriving from the colonisation of British explorers and the immigration of Europeans in the 20th century which has since grounded the country to the Western world politically and culturally.

Culture

Western culture, also known as Western civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, is the heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world. Western values become the symbols of dominant mentality for the culture of Western societies that transcended through power and authority. The term applies beyond Europe to countries and cultures whose histories are strongly connected to Europe by immigration, colonization or influence. For example, Western culture includes countries in the Americas and Oceania. Western culture is most strongly influenced by Greek philosophy, Roman law, and Christian culture.

The expansion of Greek culture into the Hellenistic world of the eastern Mediterranean led to a synthesis between Greek and Near-Eastern cultures, and major advances in literature, engineering, and science, and filed the culture for the expansion of early Christianity and the Greek New Testament. This period overlapped with and was followed by Rome, which made key contributions in law, government, technology and political organization.

Western culture is characterized by a host of artistic, philosophic, literary and legal themes and traditions. Christianity, primarily the Roman Catholic Church, and later Protestantism has played a prominent role in the shaping of Western civilization since at least the 4th century, as did Judaism. A cornerstone of Western thought, beginning in ancient Greece and continuing through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, is the opinion of rationalism in various spheres of life developed by Hellenistic philosophy, scholasticism and humanism. Empiricism later gave rise to the scientific method, the scientific revolution, and the Age of Enlightenment.




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