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==Coscivian and Occidental worlds==
==Coscivian and Occidental worlds==
The first encounters with [[Occidental civilisation]] <strike> since the Hiberno-Scottish mission occured in the 13th century, as Coscivian explorers, traders, and colonists came into contact with the European peoples of [[Levantia]] and other regions in [[Ixnay]] and further afield. Civilisational conflict of any sort did not emerge in earnest until the 20th century, when the beginnings of globalisation forced the greater part of the Coscivian world to confront a Western-dominated international society and international order. A number of 20th-century developments in Western civilisation, such as {{wp|materialism}}, {{wp|utilitarianism}} and {{wp|secularisation}}; the growth of totalising ideologies such as communism, fascism, and nationalism; revolutionary and countercultural movements; and the proliferation of {{wp|consumerism}} and a homogenised mass-culture, began to stir antipathy towards Western civilisation and arouse fears of assimilation. Both social and political [[Anti-Westernism in Kiravia|Anti-Western]] movements gained momentum during the mid-20th century, and exercise a great deal of influence over cultural, language, immigration, and foreign policy in [[Kiravia]] and [[Livensóla]].</strike>
The [[Occidental civilization|Occident]] is the cultural sphere with which Coscivian-Boreal civilisation has had the most extensive contact. Historically, Coscivian-Occidental cross-cultural exchange was a product of geographic proximity, occurring via trade and transmigration between Great Kirav and Levantia. In modernity, it is more often a function of Occidental {{wp| cultural hegemony}} on a global scale. In the words of [[List_of_Kiravian_academics#S.P._Vérannív|S.P. Vérannív]], "The fundamental problem out of which 'defensive' Coscivian identity arose in modernity is that the Occident is the civilisation with which the Coscivian world has the most in common, and therefore the one against which it must define itself in order to complete its dialectical idesis." <!-- since the Hiberno-Scottish mission occured in the 13th century, as Coscivian explorers, traders, and colonists came into contact with the European peoples of [[Levantia]] and other regions in [[Ixnay]] and further afield. Civilisational conflict of any sort did not emerge in earnest until the 20th century, when the beginnings of globalisation forced the greater part of the Coscivian world to confront a Western-dominated international society and international order. A number of 20th-century developments in Western civilisation, such as {{wp|materialism}}, {{wp|utilitarianism}} and {{wp|secularisation}}; the growth of totalising ideologies such as communism, fascism, and nationalism; revolutionary and countercultural movements; and the proliferation of {{wp|consumerism}} and a homogenised mass-culture, began to stir antipathy towards Western civilisation and arouse fears of assimilation. Both social and political [[Anti-Westernism in Kiravia|Anti-Western]] movements gained momentum during the mid-20th century, and exercise a great deal of influence over cultural, language, immigration, and foreign policy in [[Kiravia]] and [[Livensóla]].-->


"Kiro-Occidental" is an inclusive compromise term intended to refer to a greater cultural world which refers to the traditionally "Occcidental world" of all Christian or Christian-descent nations of Levantia and the Latinic and Istroyan portions of Sarpedon while also making reference to the Coscivian civilization on equal footing to the Occident. The term has seen increasing academic and popular use, especially within Urcea.
"Kiro-Occidental" is an inclusive compromise term intended to refer to a greater cultural world which refers to the traditionally "Occcidental world" of all Christian or Christian-descent nations of Levantia and the Latinic and Istroyan portions of Sarpedon while also making reference to the Coscivian civilization on equal footing to the Occident. The term has seen increasing academic and popular use, especially within Urcea.

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