The catholic people, and the "eastern bloc" peoples, even when nominally and geographically west (and of course, incresingly westernized), are not exactly "of the West".
Which is why Spain and Portugal and Ireland are P.I.I.G.S (the ethno-racist term is not mere coincidence) and considered the "South" and the "periphery", both in economic…
The catholic people, and the "eastern bloc" peoples, even when nominally and geographically west (and of course, incresingly westernized), are not exactly "of the West".
Which is why Spain and Portugal and Ireland are P.I.I.G.S (the ethno-racist term is not mere coincidence) and considered the "South" and the "periphery", both in economic terms, but also in the way the core West sees them culturally: as somewhat closer to "us westerners" version of those "pesky" savages of the Global South.
(The same schism in some degree exists within the bona fide West, e.g. southern and/or rural and Catholic populations in France and Germany, and in Germany there's also the "western" vs "eastern" Germany schism still, where the latter as inferior backwards poor cousins, even if that wont be said out aloud).
The catholic people, and the "eastern bloc" peoples, even when nominally and geographically west (and of course, incresingly westernized), are not exactly "of the West".
Which is why Spain and Portugal and Ireland are P.I.I.G.S (the ethno-racist term is not mere coincidence) and considered the "South" and the "periphery", both in economic terms, but also in the way the core West sees them culturally: as somewhat closer to "us westerners" version of those "pesky" savages of the Global South.
(The same schism in some degree exists within the bona fide West, e.g. southern and/or rural and Catholic populations in France and Germany, and in Germany there's also the "western" vs "eastern" Germany schism still, where the latter as inferior backwards poor cousins, even if that wont be said out aloud).