On the list, there are also several independences from Russia (does Russia count as Western?) or the USSR, several independences from Yugoslavia, some independences from the Ottoman Empire (there might have be more had the Ottoman Empire not failed to be the last imperial power ruling over various places, see for example all the independences from Yugoslavia), some joint independences (e.g from Japan and France, from Egypt and the United Kingdom), some independences from distinctly non-Western states such as Japan, Ethiopia, and Haiti, some complicated situations like the Namibian independence from apartheid-era South Africa...
Also on the map there are some notable non-Western countries without Independence days as such; notables include Japan, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, (does Russia count as Western?)...
It seems likely that a majority of people live in countries celebrating some sort of Independence Day; Western Europe is a bit odd in that it consists of countries that don't - however this is merely going against the trend, rather than being some strange exception.
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Date: 2011-07-05 09:26 am (UTC)Also on the map there are some notable non-Western countries without Independence days as such; notables include Japan, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, (does Russia count as Western?)...
It seems likely that a majority of people live in countries celebrating some sort of Independence Day; Western Europe is a bit odd in that it consists of countries that don't - however this is merely going against the trend, rather than being some strange exception.