For people on the ground it was Telegram groups and channels. "TG" is huge in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
For people on the ground it was Telegram groups and channels. "TG" is huge in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
The world is MUCH bigger than that, and telegram has much wider spread than that. But yes, twitter spaces is tiny fringe space even in the "west"(a term that always bothered me given how the world is round, and how Australia, New Zealand, and Japan are somehow part of "the West").
Does that make India and Nigeria part of the West? Also, Commonwealth of Nations is the preferred contemporary term.
I would never bunch Oceanic or Asian cultures in there.
I'm surprised to hear other people use it in a broader sense. At some point one is talking about cultures that are so different it's no longer meaningful to generalise across them.
> a term that always bothered me given how the world is round
Historical quirks of language are everywhere. Atheists still say Good Bye (God by with you) when they part, and say Bless You when you sneeze.