In my opinion, “the West” is (nearly) a synonym of “the imperial core”. I have met a lot of non-white people who live in “the West” and embody a lot of what I hate about “white people” (the selfishness, for example). My point is that apart from people who actively fight against it (most leftists, for example), people who live in the West in general adhere to, follow, promote, etc, Capitalist Ideology. This is less the case for those living in the Global South (in my experience).
I've always found it interesting how Latin American countries are often seen as being non-western. We speak a Western language and predominantly practice a Western culture. That alone should count them us being a part of the West, and yet we're talked about like we're a separate entity.
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Yeah, couple of random things about that: i seen a couple of times in the chilean sibbredit that we are living in a western culture because “the east doesnt represent us”
Also once i saw a chilean youtuber saying “that sort of weird things are allowed in france because they dont have the same western sensitivities as us”
A good book about the geographic invention/development of "the west" is The Myth of Continents.
yeah I don't know how it is in your country but here in Honduras we all consider ourselves western, white people are people with white skin colour, and the most important distinction is usually between who is a gringo and is not one. From what it seems to me gringo is anyone who hails from a protestant or non-romance western country. Black americans are gringos, Germans are definitely gringos, but french probably aren't. and the Palestinian community here usually isn't lumped into gringo. This whole western, white, first world vs third world, etc split always comes off as something that only makes sense in america.
I meant how the NATO countries seem to see us as being non-western.