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Originally Posted by NatVox
It was not coincidentially the British who invented this concept of Western Europe through which they could lay a claim on Ancient Greece and Rome.
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The concept of Western Europe was born out of the schism between the Eastern and the Western Empires and two forms of Christianity. It came into being with Charlemagne's coronation in Rome in 800. Since then you have opposition East-West within European Christendom and culture in general. I don't think it was invented by the British. The British, on the other hand, invented the concept of the West in general, as it is understood in today's politico-ideological discourse. Western Europe is a subdivision of the European civilization, while West (in its modern Anglospheric variety) is something alien to European culture, an entirely universalistic culture, having borrowed some basic notions from the European culture, but perverted and vulgarised them.
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Originally Posted by NatVox
Well, it is still more clear when you know that the early Nordicist theorists were English.
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Are you referring principally to Houston Stewart Chamberlain? Curiously, there were proto-Nordicists in the non-Germanic Europe as well, such as comte Arthur Gobineau, for example.