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- the West; the Occident; Western countries
This meaning refers to the regions and countries located in the western hemisphere or those that are culturally influenced by Western civilization. It often contrasts with the East.
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As you can also tell from these beautiful, far from Japanese, looks, Yuna is not pure-blood Japanese. She's a quarter-blood with a westerner as grandmother.
The Japanese have tried to learn the Western way of thinking and feeling for the past hundred years.
Westerners, in general, prefer to avoid such topics unless the other person brings them up.
Some Westerners may think our houses are lacking in everything they consider essential.
In foreign countries, especially in Western countries, students are encouraged to express and develop themselves as individuals.
This is true partly because non-Westerners have begun to take pride in their own cultures and partly because those areas of the world where forks are not used have some of the highest birth rates.
The fork made its way to Western tables several hundred years later, but it was not immediately accepted.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that Augustine's thought had an influence not only on Christianity but on the whole of Western thought.