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Just one reason I've cared to think of: intellectual discourse in literally the whole world outside of the U.S. uses European definitions. To us the Americans are the ones with weird counterintuitive definitions, and there's a lot more of us.
While this sounds plausible to me (and speaking as an American, I don't like American politics), I'd like to doublecheck: are you European, and if so how do you know that the world outside of Europe uses European definitions?
In Slovenia Liberalism is basically means a sort of light Libertarianism, or the closest we have to it.
I'm Russian (whether my nation can and should identify as European has been an unrelenting argument for the last 300 years), and I like reading syndication-based websites like russ.ru and liberty.ru, which quite commonly refer to non-Western thought or have articles by non-Western authors.