Why was the united states considered part of the western world

The United States is descended from British colonies. ... As a capitalistic, liberal nation, the US maintained a similar line of progress as Western Europe, though the US has split slightly in recent years when Western European countries were forced to make greater sacrifices to their socialist movements than America.

50% because no one is smart enough to relize that money makes the world go round and 99% of the earth hates donald trump the other 1% is the republicans go figure right