It's perfectly reasonable for Western people to use "Classical" as a shorthand for "Western Classical". It's easy enough to apply a modifier if we want to talk about Indian Classical or Persian Classical or whatever. It doesn't mean we don't care about music from other areas, just that the default is to refer to our own musical traditions. The same is true of people from India and Iran—Indians are usually India-centric etc.

I recently discovered the Anthology Of Indian Classical Music (UNESCO, 1955)[1], you might enjoy it.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3r8LpSp6bM

Yes but it hasn't traveled all that well for whatever reason while Western Classical music (WCM) has been adopted on a massive scale by China, Korea and other countries in Asia, to such an extent that considering the numerous cutbacks for orchestras and classical music generally in the West, WCM itself is being kept alive by these communities. Some argue that Lang Lang lit a fuse.

"Today China is experiencing piano frenzy with an estimated 40m children now learning to play. The instrument is increasingly in vogue among China’s burgeoning middle classes, who have the money to splurge on steep lessons and expensive fixtures. Spurring them on is the phenomenal success of the Chinese superstar concert pianists Lang Lang and Li Yundi"

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20131022-piano-mania-gri... https://www.ludwig-van.com/toronto/2019/08/13/feature-the-pi...

"With direct government involvement, the Chinese strategy to conquer the world of classical music includes a coherent strategy that operates from the ground up, including building the infrastructure for their booming classical musical sector. There are stunning new concert halls in Shanghai, Beijing, and Harbin to showcase classical music."

Perhaps no need to say that I am here referring only to the relative extent of the universal appeal of very different musical genres not to their intrinsic aesthetic rewards for fans.

They probably have their own names for their own music and fewer people demanding they change it because its too centered on their culture.

well to be pedantic, "classical" isn't even a style, its a time-period

if you want to be nitpicky, this app should be called Apple Symphonic

most of the symphonic music I prefer (late 19th century) would be considered from the romantic era

i.e. I don't consider Wagner to be "classical"

like...Philip Glass is not "classical" music...but he's a symphonic composer