They Kling on to their Culture

In this cast I live edit and clean up my article on the Klingons and the Transatlantic view of the Middle East.
I wrote an interesting article about the idea that Star-Trek captures how “the west” sees people like me.

But I also write about how the “West” isn’t by itself western civilization, because the Middle East is a crucial part of western civilization and western history, so we need another name to talk about the post-colonial cultures of Europe/North America - not limited to those geographies of course. I term this cultural phenomenon - The Transatlantic. So we can stop calling America the west, and Palestine the East, because they’re both western. To differentiate, we call Americans and French the Transatlantic, and we call Arabs the original westerns, along with Egyptians, Persians, Ethiopians, and Greeks, Carthaginians, and Turks, while the rest of the western civilizations rose later. Here’s the full article.

I’d love to hear what you think! How were you taught about “the West”? What themes stood out to you? Let me hear your voice!