Are Slavs Westerners?

[Art23]

That Ukraine is more european/western than Russia is a meme. Historically and even today european influences were/are much stronger in areas like Saint Petersburg than in Ukraine.

Nyet.

Ukraine was historically a part of Poland-Lithuania and Austria-Hungary. Not only politically, but culturally Ukraine is closer to Europe/West than Russia.

[Art23]

What about Belarus?

Currently Belarus as country is in horrible conditions being under the pro-Soviet Lukashenko dictatorship. But culturally and historically Belarus and Belarusians are definitely western.

[Cumansky]

No

[Rob1992]

Ukrainian culture is rooted in the Zaporozhian Cossacks, which, in turn, were the result of a Turkic-Slavic symbiosis. Of course, there was western elements in it, but nothing more. The soul of the Slavs belongs to the east, where the sun rises.


Very western!

[Universe]

absolutely not. Slavs are Eurasian. read Mr. Dugin

Only Russia is. The rest nope.

[blogen]

This is the borderland of Europe. The Czech and Slovenian peoples are 100% westerners, Poles, Slovaks, Croats and the nonSlavic Magyars are 75-50% westerners (Poles, lowland Magyars and Croats less, Slovaks and Transdanubian Magyars more). Belorussians, Ukrainians, Russians, Serbs, Bosniaks, Bulgarians and Macedonians are not western peoples, their culture partially westernized (5-10%), but this is superficial western effect of the globalization only.

[Chocolate_Hound]

IMO it comes in levels. Eastern Europeans are European but not Western. Russia, on the other hand, is neither fully European nor Western, it is its own thing. Catholic Slavs are Western-tilting, while Russians are borderline Asian territory when it comes to mentality/culture.

[Creoda]

The traditionally Catholic Slavs are Westerners in a broad sense. In the broadest sense, all Europeans bar Muslims are Westerners vs the Orient.

[Chocolate_Hound]

The traditionally Catholic Slavs are Westerners in a broad sense. In the broadest sense, all Europeans bar Muslims are Westerners vs the Orient.

I find it funny that the Muslim world is considered the "Orient" because the capital of Russia is technically more eastward than Mecca, which is where Islam was founded.

[Corporate_Demolisher]

The only similiarities between the two are the physical appearance. That’s it.