On: Why Western designs fail in developing countries [...

[deaddodo]

It's usually considered Western-adjacent.

"Western" is somewhat of a biased term to limit nations to an in-group of rich, affluent, mostly culturally eurocentric/euroderived nations. If you don't fit all of the qualifiers, you're not in.

LATAM is missing out on the affluence (and, some would argue, a certain racial component), so they get excluded. Japan, SKorea, etc are also sometimes included or made adjacent for similar reasons.

[diego_sandoval → deaddodo]

That's kind of a nonsensical classification but apparently is the one being used. I always thought western meant "in the western hemisphere".

[hollerith → diego_sandoval]

No. It means the Western part of the Old World as opposed to the Near East, India, China, etc, plus the parts of the New World setted by that part of the Old World.

[diego_sandoval → hollerith]

South America was settled by the western part of the old world.

[jemmyw → diego_sandoval]

New Zealand and Australia are Western countries that aren't anywhere near Europe and North America

[deaddodo → diego_sandoval]

It broadly does. With the asterisk of "rich, culturally European (and probably white)".