Huntington's exclusion of Latin America from "The West" is bizarre. And I see no reason for Beinart to accept it. It's weird.
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Technically speaking it refers to the western roman empire.
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Also, Latin american culture is descended from Spanish culture,so just as much "the west" as the US is, if not even more 'Latin' then we are
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Western civilization in the deep sense—absolutely. The West as the dominant and enlightened liberal democratic economies of modernity—nope.
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It's spotty, but I'd say many Latin American nations are firmly on a path similar to the US in the evolution of their democratic experiments
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The West's "back yard"
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Most Americans think of "the West" as California.
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Its always been a euphemism for white European origination
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Mexico is a shame to the west Guatemala is ever burning dumpster fire
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