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 think the west IS a real thing. But it's not the overarching culture of European-influenced nations. Because that doesn't exist outside of a weak Pan-Europeanism that is about as strong as that of a unified Chinese culture that includes every minority nation. certainly it has almost nothing to do with the Settler states.
What the West is (or was) is the shared cultural values of the European ruling classes. The reason that the Russian, French, and English Courts all spoke French for centuries. The unified nature of art and music clearly tied to that.
Meanwhile the ordinary people had little to no exposure to that culture outside maybe the latest tunes from a hit Singspiel.