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0 pointstsunamifury6mo ago0 comments

False.

Westernism is broadly an extension of the academic notion of classicism, starting in Egypt and then Greece Rome and into Europe and the Americas.

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notepad0x906mo ago

It's not an academic notion (at least not strictly), since virtually everyone uses it routinely.

tsunamifuryOP6mo ago

Oddly since I got many downvotes with this statement, it's clear the average hacker news reader knows very little about world history or common knowledge

notepad0x906mo ago

That's very reductive of you. "western" like "3rd world" is used very differently than what you or academics would like.

tsunamifuryOP6mo ago

I feel like you didn't even grasp the base sentence meaning. "Classicism" is an academic concept

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notepad0x906mo ago

It's not an academic notion (at least not strictly), since virtually everyone uses it routinely.

tsunamifuryOP6mo ago

Oddly since I got many downvotes with this statement, it's clear the average hacker news reader knows very little about world history or common knowledge

notepad0x906mo ago

That's very reductive of you. "western" like "3rd world" is used very differently than what you or academics would like.

tsunamifuryOP6mo ago

I feel like you didn't even grasp the base sentence meaning. "Classicism" is an academic concept

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