I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.'
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
For most western executives, innovation is about breakthrough technology or innovation. If it's not breakthrough, it's not interesting, and it's all about technology and products.
I just love westerns. One of my favourite actors is John Wayne, probably one of the most underrated actors there's ever been. He's quite an incredible actor.
Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.
So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.
Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.
My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.
The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.
When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.
Therefore, once U.S. forces leave, it is almost inevitable that an anti-Western, anti-U.S. regime will arise.
The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound division between it an ourselves. We have given up the understanding -- dropped it out of our lang...
This is the difference between the Spanish advent and the American; that the technical revolution provoked by the first produced the Filipino, while the cultural upheaval provoked by the second merely helped us to become more aware of this Filipinone...
Death is inevitable. But the meaning people attach to death, its causes and aftermath, is culturally given. Without meaning, without culture making sense of things, life would be impossible.
The culture of the Epic Fail, in its rituals of comic sacrifice, is a culture of sublimated predation.
There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gi...
Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will behave differently if he comes of age in Detroit, Mich., versus Windsor, Ontario; in New York in the 1980s versus ...
