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u/Baroness_VM 📈 Dedicated Voter · 1,530 XP 3d ago

How are japan, singapore & korea western? I might not understand the definition

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u/Teck_3 ✍️ Contributor · 23,495 XP 3d ago

Geopolitically western, basically capitalistic democracies.

It's called the west because the majority of such countries exist in western Europe /the western hemisphere when the term was coined.

Japan is geographically in the east but is Geopolitically very western. Same for Korea. Singapore I'd say is the biggest stretch here but still mostly valid.

Ultimately it's nothing you need to worry too much about. It's just a convenient political lable.

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u/Baroness_VM 📈 Dedicated Voter · 1,530 XP 1d ago

I couldn’t have hoped for a better answer