Re: Western culture?
The problem still exists that a person could not claim that Cuba, Uruguay and Argentina have no link with Spain, or that Quebec has no link with France, or New Zealand no link with Ireland and the UK. That would be arguing against reality. How important those links are, and how they should influence political policy is another question.
I'd like for the term "the West" to be abandoned because it is almost always used to mean rich countries who must help the US govern the world as junior partners.
Even so, "the West" still makes sense as an historical reference to the Latin Western Empire of Rome and to the inheritors of that tradition, but it should only be used with that meaning, IMO.
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