western culture
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwesternandculture
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western
adjective
uk/ˈwes.tən/us/ˈwes.tɚn/
in or from the west of ...
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culture
noun
uk/ˈkʌl.tʃər/us/ˈkʌl.tʃɚ/
the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a ...
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(Definition ofwesternandculturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofwestern culture
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He describedwesterncultureas an 'epidemic' (1959: 201).
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First because he sees western civilization expanding over the whole globe, andwesternculturereplacing cultures of other types.
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What is beyond doubt is the scale and importance of the enterprise, which has no match in the history ofwesternculture.
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Traces of this attitude are spread throughoutwesternculture.
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She suggests that in allwesternculture, these relationships have similar characteristics.
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They have assimilated, in part or in full, many aspects ofwesternculture.
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To be independent was a source of pride as well as stress, as they began to realise that the younger generation had been subjected towesterncultureand social norms.
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Medicine has been commerce since its appearance inwesternculture.
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Inwesternculturethis relationship of quasi-ritual initiation existed until the middle of the eighteenth century when musical notation was codified along with the tempered scale to formalise communication.
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They have been brought up to a great extent within awesterncultureand their aspirations are similar to those of young western people.
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In an advanced democraticwesternculture, we should consider the desire to remove discrimination a good cause.
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I protested that the great museums and galleries have always been free and it is part of our civilized society that the splendours ofwesterncultureshould be freely accessible.
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The kind of ecomomic twist that is thereby given to the entire system is so unashamedly utilitarian as to be almost incredible within ourwesternculture.
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We have only to look at how our elective democracy works in ourwesternculture, and in our own history in particular, to recognise the point.
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He also believes that the imposition ofwesterncultureand neo-colonialism should be avoided.
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Inwesternculture, sound alikes find work as impersonators on television comedy programmes portraying famous individuals.
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