Westsplaining (original) (raw)

Westsplaining (a blend word of west and the informal form splaining of the gerund explaining) is a pejorative term that represents criticism of Western world sociopolitical views of Central and Eastern Europe and its historical and current relations with the Soviet Union and Russia. The word became virally popular during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine after Jan Smoleński and Jan Dutkiewicz defined the word to mean "[the] phenomenon of people from the Anglosphere loudly foisting their analytical schema and political prescriptions onto the [Central and Eastern European] region".