Are you living in a Western or Eastern Civilization?

[Synaesthesia]

I am living in a Western civilization.

.. :D

 

[Haz]

Australia and Western (But not Western Australia :P)

 

[Wings Don't Cry]

I live in New Zealand, we live in a western civilization but according to you it's Eastern.

 

[Miz en Scène]

I live in New Zealand, we live in a western civilization but according to you it's Eastern.

I was referring to the US with that picture. New Zealand is a Western Civilization.

 

[Lady Gaga]

uh...im Canadian. so west...right? >.<
(i hope im getting this right. i was the only one in my class that when given a map, knew that crossing the Pacific ocean was a faster way of getting to Japan. Not the other way. everybody was skeptical, since they thought there was a whole other side of the world. but no...i knew ;D)

 

[LethalTexture]

Well I suppose, according to you, I am in an Eastern Country. But, those countries that are termed to be in "Western Civilization" are all MEDCs, whereas Eastern are coined as LEDCs. Simple geography, people.

 

[Mitchman]

Europe. Eastern Europe. So I guess east?

 

[Miz en Scène]

Europe. Eastern Europe. So I guess east?

Actually, Europe is West unless you have an Eastern-like culture.

 

[.little monster]

Well I suppose, according to you, I am in an Eastern Country. But, those countries that are termed to be in "Western Civilization" are all MEDCs, whereas Eastern are coined as LEDCs. Simple geography, people.

It has nothing to do with geography, this isn't asking "Do you live on the west or east part of the world?" It's asking what kind of Civilization you live in, and the two most common are Eastern and Western, of which have nothing to do with geography. If it did the following countries would not be called Western Countries:

All of the North and South American continents.
Western Europe
South Africa
Australia
New Zealand
Israel
Iceland

(Yes I know the first two aren't countries. :|)

And various nations spread across the world. Whether a country is classified as a Western or Eastern country has nothing to do with its geographical location. Read my earlier post if you want more detail.

Actually, Europe is West unless you have an Eastern-like culture.

Actually, parts of Eastern Europe (and Russia, which I never say is Eastern Europe because it's on the Asian continent for the most part) are not Eastern or Western. They are all Orthodox for the most part. However, it is not rare for Islamic (Eastern) and Western cultures to appear.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Clash_of_Civilizations_map.png

Some notes:

South Africa is considered both an African and Western civilization due to it being colonized by Western Europeans.
Israel is a mix of Islamic and Western civilization, those do not coincide together as peacefully as in South Africa.
Latin American civilization is basically the same as Western civilization since the thing that makes a country Western is if it is Christian-based, which Latin America is Catholic based. Catholicism is a branch of Christianity.

 

[LethalTexture]

It has nothing to do with geography, this isn't asking "Do you live on the west or east part of the world?" It's asking what kind of Civilization you live in, and the two most common are Eastern and Western, of which have nothing to do with geography.

I'm not saying that, I am referring to the division of countries using the LEDC/MEDC method, as the two types of civilization you refer to have soem bearing on the economic development of said country. Ergo, most, if not all, countries that are referred to as Western are above the line, hence MEDCs, and those below (LEDCs) are referred to as Eastern.

I'm not sayign that it is solely based on this, but as I say it does have some bearing on the society. I have studied this, but only at a near basic level. I tried to find a diagram, but the only one I can find is nowhere near big enough to demonstrate my point.

EDIT: But I can give it a shot.