Is the West culturally an extension of the Midwest?
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I suppose that back in the late 18th century and a good part of the early 19th century, yes, but the country was still new and territory was yet to be discovered.
677487
Have you ever thought about the Midwest?  I'd go western Illinois in some of the smallish university town.  That way there will still be jobs and plenty of housing available.  Good luck!
535393
I doubt it. Culture might account for differences but as Asian cultures continue adopting western influences any disparity in maturity behaviour will even out. In a few generations the entire world will be a mass of babbling idiots.
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I would say "C" is the closest answer to the question. I believe that people adapt their way of living to the topography, climate, tradition, social pressures and any number of other factors. Do a little research on the Anasazi of the southwestern U.S. and see what factors may have lead to their demise.
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You mean, East like Asia. And West like Europe and the Americas? \n\nPerhaps because of the diet pattern.
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It is because Easterners were the ones to name the parts of the Country. Note how California isn't part of the South (which really refers to the South Eastern portion of the United States) and the Mid-West is closer to the East Coast than the West Coast. Additionally, California is friggenly huge, it can be considered both South West and North West, depending on which part of the state you're in.
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The term 'the West' is relative to human history, NOT an actual marker, such as the Prime Meridian or the hemispheres.  The meaning has changed from time to time, but the term 'West' today can be most closes traced back to maps of the Old World, on which the American continents did not exists and most of what we would consider our common European ancestry (England, Spain, etc) would have been on the 'western' edge of the map.  The term stuck as these powers expanded due to the simularities in languge and culture between the powers and their colonies (AKA the United States).  During the Cold War, the term 'the West' took on new meaning to mean those countries literally on the West side of the Iron Curtain (again America, Western Europe) and those on the East (Russia, China).  Today, the 'Western world' consists of all countries whose institutions, technology, material comfort, market systems, common western European ancestry and overall customs, dress and tastes are sufficiently simular to be grouped together (often called 'Western civilization').
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they look a bit east, but when i was out there for school, they considered themselves midwest.  \nthough i think because the terrain changes on the east and west side of the state, their identity is a bit mixed.  cleveland on the east, had a lot to do with steel in its heyday, so they identify with the rust belt, which is western east coast too.  but as you go out west it gets flatter and much more like the plain states, so what these people do, and their day to day experience is much more like the midwest states, so that's where they tend to identify.
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Yes.\n\nOver the last 20-30 years we've seen a BIG swing in the United States because people were seeking spiritual and cultural influences from other countries. \n\n(Large influx of eastern thought in the 70's, and in the last 20 years the Hispanic population has dramatically increased, bringing new ideas with it, as just two examples.)\n\nLike any form of interaction, we can both benefit and be harmed by such things, depending on how we approach them and what we personally take away from them.\n\nI'd say US culture looked pretty uniform though around 1950, while nowadays it is VERY diverse due to crossing cultural boundaries.
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Africa and Latin America had incluence the moder art through many things. First through the Culture, we have a rich culture that during the last decades had being showed thanks to the very mix racial melt that the US has suffered.
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North American culture is not a quarter as romantic as European culture for either sex.  I suppose a lot of it has to do with priorities that these different cultures place on things.  Here in North America is seems that people are more interested in belongings and things, while in Europe (certainly there is greed for belongings there also) but people tend to be raised to value the beauty of each other and so their romance is more outgoing then here.  Plus the fact that America is only 250 years old or so and some of these European places have been around for 1000's of years so there traditions are more inbred.
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I've seen "Atlantocentric", but that's open to misinterpretation (could meet NATO-centric, US/UK-centric, or NAm/Euro-centric).\n"Euro-American" occasionally pops up.\nThe clumsier "Western-centric" is quite common, but would also technically cover other "Western" societies like Aus or NZ.
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Our alphabet is Greek-Latin, not -Latino.\nThe reason it is called "Western" culture is that all the disparate, separate elements that make it up came together to make a distinct culture in western Europe starting in about the 16th century AD.  The period from about the 15th to the 18th century was called the "Enlightenment" or "Renaissance."  It marked a rebirth of learning, science, and rationality following the religious and political oppressiveness of the Medieval period, a/k/a the "Dark Ages."
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Yes. Samuel Huntington in his "Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" describes this notion in greater detail.\n\nHe divides the world into seven civilizations (with the Western culture having the largest conflict against the Islamic culture, the others being the African, Sinic, Eastern European, Japanese, and perhaps Latin American), each with different heritages, experiences, and beliefs. The different countries will cluster together and these different cultures will be the main actors in the future of warfare and conflict--no longer the state. Each culture will have a pole (main country) which will direct the trajectory of the civilization.\n\nThe gap between cultures will be the basis for conflicts and could be more deadly than traditional wars because they stem from fundamental beliefs.\n\nBut check out the Clash of Civilizations for more info. It's a compelling read.
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American culture is a Western culture, largely based on British culture with influences from other parts of Europe, the Native American peoples, African Americans and to a lesser extent Asian Americans and other young groups of immigrants.
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North America culture is a mixture of all cultures around the world. Only think unique we have is hip hop and jazz.
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Northern, and Western.