[xxs]

East Europe. Also it won't be considered a Western country, even if you say it's in the central Europe (with the latter starting at the Ural mountain). The west is more of a cultural term than geographic one, e.g. Finland is West, but Estonia, Latvia and Bulgaria are not, even though their capitals are roughly at the same meridian... and Estonia & Finland having the same song as national anthem.

[schleck8]

Estonia and Latvia aren't western countries? What else then?

You just showed how stupid of a construct the whole 'western/eastern' nonsense is

[FabHK]

Why is it nonsense? The fact that borders between binary concepts are fuzzy doesn't make the whole concept nonsense.

[nannal]

Have you ever been to any Baltic country?

Your argument is coming across as vaguely racist and appears to be based on nothing but the divisions imposed between the second and first world.

[xxs]

>Have you ever been to any Baltic country?

All 4 of them (if you count Poland, counting Finland or Sweden would be even harder). Here is a Latvian joke about Estonia: "no sex or future in Estonia". I have been in pretty much any European country, minus Portugal. No idea where the racism idea comes from, though.

[nannal]

There are only 3 Baltic countries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_states), Neither Poland, Finland nor Sweden are Baltic.

[xxs]

Well that's the joke. Other than that I find Gdansk more similar to Riga than Warsaw.

[secondaryacct]

This is as coherent as talking of "black culture". There is no west, people who use it are chinese to dismiss everything not chinese (so Japan is western) and the US uses it to force us to join their stuff.