I am Greek.. I am constantly reminded by American press I come from the birthplace of what some call “western civilization” dear. For the most part it is exactly what I argue about the use of “western civilization” in political discourse. It’s mostly nationalists, usually American, that use the term as a sly method to manipulate other nations into supporting their own pet national cause. Europeans do not see themselves as the same people any more than the Japanese and Chinese and Koreans do just because they live in Asia.
And leftists today, obsessed with wokeness, and some, racist foreigners angry at the US, idiotically take the bait by attacking what they call “western civilization”. It’s similar to how some use “white supremacy”. it’s mostly in the US where many Europeans are ethnically mixed where some identify as white. For most of the rest of us with white skin do not see each other as kin unless someone belongs to the same ethnic group. We don’t fist bump each other at parties and say my white brother. We don’t have white history month. We don’t have white music channels. And we have wars with each other from time to time. It a political chimera that the far left and far right indulge in..