- published: 20 Jun 2016
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The Western world or the West is a term referring to different nations, depending on the context, most often including at least part of Europe. There are many accepted definitions about what they all have in common. The Western world is also known as the Occident (from Latin: occidens "sunset, West", as contrasted with its pendant the Orient).
The concept of the Western part of the earth has its roots in Greco-Roman civilization in Europe, and the advent of Christianity. In the modern era, Western culture has been heavily influenced by the traditions of the Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, Age of Enlightenment—and shaped by the expansive colonialism of the 15th-20th centuries. Before the Cold War era, the traditional Western viewpoint identified Western Civilization with the Western Christian (Catholic-Protestant) countries and culture. Its political usage was temporarily changed by the antagonism during the Cold War in the mid-to-late 20th Century (1947–1991).
The term originally had a literal geographic meaning. It contrasted Europe with the linked cultures and civilizations of the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the remote Far East, which early-modern Europeans saw as the East. Today this has little geographic relevance since the concept of the West has been expanded to include the former European colonies in the Americas, Russian Northern Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. In the contemporary cultural meaning, the phrase "Western world" includes Europe, as well as many countries of European colonial origin with substantial European ancestral populations in the Americas and Oceania.
We are the dregs of the western world
The steroid boys and video girls
We are the viral internet stars
And the anchor man can't stop crying
We are the dead with the dreaded disease
The nuclear sons for you and me
Let's go, all right, all right, let's go
What the fuck are you saying?
[Chorus]
Now I don't wanna live here anymore (Gonna watch it burn)
We are the best and we'll fight to the death
'Til nothing's left worth fighting for
In the western world
This is the end of evolution's rise
The feeding frenzy of the uncivilized
The paparazzi parasites and the vultures can't stop feeding
This is the face of our vanity
The tabloid death of inhumanity
Let's go, all right, all right, let's go
What the fuck are you saying?
[Chorus]
Now I don't wanna live here anymore (Gonna watch it burn)
We take the best and we spit out the rest
And always leave them wanting more
In the western world
We are the dregs of the western world
The steroid boys and video girls
We are the viral internet stars
And the anchor man can't stop lying
We are the dead with the dreaded disease
The nuclear sons for you and me
Let's go, all right, all right, let's go
What the fuck are you saying?
[Chorus]
Now I don't wanna live here anymore (Gonna watch it burn)
We are the best and we'll fight to the death
Until there's nothing left worth fighting for
[Chorus]
Now I don't wanna live here anymore (Gonna watch it burn)
We take the best and we spit out the rest
And always leave them wanting more
In the western world
In the western world