• Allero@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    Essentially every country settled primarily by Europeans or their descendants, except somehow Latin America, Russia and Belarus, and, debatable, a few other European countries :D

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      There was once a term used for this, first world (US and allies) second world (USSR and allies) and third world (neutral-ish nations)

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      The reason latin america is excluded from the west is because 1) they don’t exploit other countries via finance capital, and 2) most of them preserve both their indigenous cultures and populations, in a way that would be intolerable to US or Israeli settlers.