As opposed to the northern/southern hemisphere that has:
- a clear reference point (equators)
- traditionally we don’t model a rotation north/south
Western/eastern hemisphere
- doesn’t have a clear reference (Greenwich?)
- traditionally we model rotation on the north/south axis so western/eastern would depend from the time
There’s truth to what you’re saying but it also doesn’t matter. If it were instead designated as “North Atlantic” or with any arbitrary label, you would still have a subgroup of those people thinking their superior and giving us phrenology, eugenics, Nazism etc and believing in _______ supremacy. The underlying problem doesn’t go away.