Originally Posted by jwoody

I've had my moment of clarity and it's all exactly as I originally thought.

We (Westerners) accept that we are in the West but, when push comes to shove, nobody has a fucking clue what it means... and nobody ever questions it.

There are Western nations who don't even know they're in the West. Parts of the Middle East are actually in the Far East... and there are Far Eastern nations who don't realise that they're actually in the Middle East.... and vice versa.