It’s not a real thang. The difference between, say, Norway and America is as big as the difference between Murica and China.
In some ways China and Norway are closer to each other than America.
In other ways, America is closer to China than Norway.
There is no western culture. It is a fucking sham.
Just look at Hollywood. The Chinese working class and the working class in the global south love it. Meanwhile Hollywood is dead in Europe because they can’t Relate to it anymore. That should tell you something.
Culture is infinitely more complex and layered than the stupid East west shit. Fuck.
I try to sprinkle it up a bit and use terms like Anglosphere, which is very useful when talking about imperialism, but I don't really know a better shorthand for "every country that has adopted capitalism and is naturally antagonistic to actually existing socialist states, or the general self-determination of developing nations." We used to have these really useful terms called the First World, the Second World, and the Third World, but *ahem* Western chauvinism has rendered them meaningless.
Imperialist? Anglosphere lets the French off the hook.
Yeah, none of it really captures the whole picture. I suppose that's not an accident, either.