Concept in Definition ABC

In the West

We use the concept of Westerner repeatedly in our language to refer to various issues related to the West. The west is the west cardinal point and as such it will be at this point on the horizon where the sun sets every day when it sets, as it is popularly said. Thus, then, we use the western word to refer to what is proper or relative to that point.

Western culture versus Eastern culture

Now, the word West is also used a lot to refer to that part of the planet made up of countries Westerners, who are precisely located on the western plane of the world map and who share a social system, culture and economic systems similes. It differs from the call civilization or oriental culture that is located in the eastern part of the map, where the traditions, the religion and the culture is certainly different from the West, such is the case of Arab and Asian countries, who are classified in the East.

Meanwhile, large traits We could say that the Western world is made up of Europe, Australia, America, South Africa and New Zealand.

The main differentiation that we could mark between East and West is the separation of the state with respect to religion, that is, each Western country assumes a belief religious dominant but it is separated from the state, something that for example does not happen in Arab countries.
On the political level, in the West, the democratic system predominates, something that does not prevail in the East, and in the economic sphere in the West the market economy.

Therefore, we use the western word to refer in a general way to the set of countries that make up the West.

Conditions that separate the west from the east

Those that we enumerate of religion, politics and the economic system They are the main differences that exist between one world and the other, however, there is more, and it has to do with the uses and customs that exist on one side and on the other side. For example, in the West, monogamy is established as the only acceptable form of marital bonding, while in In the Arab countries, this is certainly a rarity, since there men tend to have several women and subscribe to the polygamy.

There are many deeply rooted conditions such as those exposed, although, we must highlight that globalization it brought these worlds closer and closer and in the East some very western customs have been taking over.