Homer, Jesus Christ and Shakespeare would be more at home in Africa's world than with modern western culture.
Indeed, in making such compromises, they have had to assimilate into Western culture.
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But this and other traditions are under pressure as a young generation more inclined towards Western culture and ideas grows up.
Western culture faced a mortal threat three times during the 20th century.
But at the same time Western culture is very hospitable to such marketing because there is currently a heightened perception of risk.
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Traditional knowledge, they affirm, 'has typically originated quite independently of science in a particular cultural setting, mostly also quite independently of Western culture'.
Moussaoui has assumed a role as Greek chorus for his own trial, as he skewers Western culture with his own knowledge of it.
It seems that western culture, specifically in the United States, is incredibly focused on the process of becoming someone and something other than we are now.
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People with Down syndrome are not flying planes across the globe to hang out over pu-erh and discuss the finer points of Western culture in a language all their own.
Long-standing preferences for gold and jade, both associated with good fortune, are being supplanted by a fascination with Western culture, with an extra boost from lower taxes and tariffs on diamonds.
Greek Tragedy is a powerful archetype in Western culture.
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The taboo against suicide in western culture remains strong.
Everywhere you go you are assaulted up by the piled-up mementos of Western culture (and Eastern, and intergalactic), jumbled together with no sense of scale, appropriateness or even a basic understanding of the underlying ideas.
We'd even suggest that as Western culture asserts ever more proudly the superiority of its moral relativism, the more it might want to listen to religious traditions that argue on behalf of moral absolutes and the inherent dignity of every human being.
But while Western culture as a whole has become more accepting of gay men and women, those who follow the progress of gay athletes say the football culture in Europe and the UK has a long way to go to make the sport more welcoming.
In studies he conducted in Papua New Guinea, Ekman found that members of the Fore tribe (who were completely disconnected from Western culture and were also known for their unusual cannibalism rituals) attributed smiles to descriptions of situations in the same way you and I would.
Mr Stewart, who studied Islamic history and Arabic at Oxford, says that after his long years in the Gulf he would find it hard to adjust to Western corporate culture.
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Venice was the model of Western European culture: its founders, driven to the marshes and the lagoon by invaders from the steppes, built the great and beautiful city essentially in retreat.
The image of the striking contrast of western and eastern culture might be at the heart of Iger's challenge in collaborating with the local government, which owns a 57% stake in the resort.
Auden, who were pillars of Western civilization and mainstream culture and whose own politics, in many cases, were hardly leftist.
Indian discount shopping is still fragmented because of diverse culture while Western retailers are able to treat the entire customer base as one.
The show opens by explaining the politics and culture of western Africa before the Europeans arrived to trade in raw materials, luxury items and, eventually, human beings.
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Pamuk's love story is about upper-class Turks in the '70s caught between their Western lifestyles and a culture that they rule but to which they do not entirely belong.
John Donahue at Harvard's Kennedy School points out that the egalitarian culture in Western civil services suits those who want to stay put but is bad for high achievers.
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Singapore's government has worked to marry Eastern culture and Western business practices, and the country is now the world's fourth leading financial center, behind London, New York and Hong Kong.
Noor has been variously criticized for being an outsider, a jet-setter or a Western woman crusading in a conservative culture.
There is, instead, ample evidence that Western (and not only) culture conditions girls to not express aggression, which then forces them to resort to covert bullying, very frequently using that intimacy sharing you spoke about as a tool.
Looking through it, Brazil's celebrity culture appears similar to a Western European or American one.
"TV Breizh will promote European culture by developing Celtic culture, that of the far western parts of Europe, " Mr Le Lay said in June, before the scheduled launch date of 4 August.
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