>>13928684>You can't even define it. It's an outstandingly ignorant and self-absorbed term that was invented less than 100 years ago out of an era of colonization, imperialism, racism, and exceptionalism.Is this bait? Are you serious? I'm asking because I've done this before: larp as a moron.
You can't be serious. Western civilization has clearly been defined by historians: starting in the Hellenes/Greek, and focusing on the culture and history from Anatolia to Western Europe. This has existed from the Minoans (3500-1100BCE) up to, now. The culture is built upon Hellenistic values, philosophy, culture, modified by Medieval Christianity, and defined by the Renaissance. 100 years ago isn't even close.
Sure imperialism was a defining feature (Rome and the Colonization of the Americas), but that existed 2000 years ago, and it isn't the only thing. Philosophy, Enlightenment, Empiricism are also defining features. Much science we have now sprung from that era: and it wasn't because history is racist; they simply were advanced, moreso than other civilizations. Gauss and Riemann expanded Diff geo before anyone else, along Jacobi, and various chemists/astronomers, etc.
It is defined, and exists. Stop being a fringe historian, or go back to /pol/ and larp elsewhere.
