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- the West; the Occident; Western countriessee also 東洋
noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
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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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1. にほんじんはなれ日本人離れしたこのうつくしい美しいそうぼう相貌からもわかるように、ゆうな優奈はじつ実はきっすい生粋のにほんじん日本人じゃない。せいようにん西洋人をおばあちゃんにもつ持つ、くぉうたあクォーターだったりする。
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.
Yukichi Fukuzawa introduced Western ideas into Japan.
They were the native New Zealanders before the Western people came.
The Japanese have tried to learn the Western way of thinking and feeling for the past hundred years.
Japan needed contact with the Western countries.
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.
When I speak to a Westerner, I have to shift mental gears, so to speak.
Some people claim that there are no more heroes in the Western world.
In most Western countries, young people come of age at 18 or 21.
In foreign countries, especially in Western countries, students are encouraged to express and develop themselves as individuals.
17. ひとつ一つには、せいようにん西洋人ではないひとびと人々がじぶん自分たちどくじ独自のぶんか文化にほこり誇りをもち持ちはじめて始めてきたためと、またひとつ一つには、ふぉうくフォークをつかわない使わないそれらのちいき地域はもっとも最もたかい高いしゅっしょうりつ出生率のちいき地域をかかえている抱えているというりゆう理由から、このことはあたっている当たっている。
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.