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"Their rituals often involve mimicking the behavior and practices of Westerners in the hope of attracting similar blessings from the gods."
"Islam is not going to give a solution. Why do we have human rights in the West? Everything we are enjoying today came from the West."
"As incoming Western culture integrated itself into Japan, this new Japanese culture was itself being exported to the West."
"Korra isn't too Western because Republic City reminds you of New York, it's too Western because its creators can't break free from presenting the modern Western political and social model as the end goal."
"There's a lot of evidence that shows that exporting western culture leads to an increase in body dysmorphic disorder."
"The west as a liberal democratic force no longer exists."
"The epicenter of modern Western tattooing... Oh yeah, oh yeah, my god, yeah, unbelievable man."
"You're seeing the collapse of this Western hegemony, you're seeing it before your eyes."
"South Africa's strategic alignment with BRICS, spearheaded by the collaborative efforts of Russia and China, marks a significant move to challenge Western dominance on the global stage."
"There's more Sanskrit departments in the West than in India. We need universities rooted in Indian traditions."
"There can't be any strong Western leadership without strong American leadership."
"The commitment to achieving these transformative goals without succumbing to the influence of Western Powers highlights the nation's Pursuit of an independent and self-reliant path."
"Black Panther: pivotal character both in his own solo series and as part of the Avengers."
"Putin in effect describes a predatory West anxious to gain control of Russian resources in order to enrich itself at Russia's expense."
"The Western idea of human rights often is devastating to a local culture."
"The West was aggressively spreading capitalism throughout the world."
"The Russians are panic buying Big Macs, they're panic buying anything Western."
"Moving away from the West... has never been greater."
"The major reason for the ease with which Russian oligarchs have abandoned their loyalty to Vladimir Putin is the pressure placed on them by the United States and other Western countries."
"Our people have paid and still paying heavy price as the result of the Declaration and the support of Western power in general."
"Peter the Great would become noted for his westernization of Russia."
"In one of his more, let’s say unconventional moments, Peter even enacted a beard tax to encourage Russians to cut their beards because the clean shaven look was in vogue in Western Europe."
"The Western World finally realized they had made plunders in Africa."
"Ukraine is what the West will convert their own countries and societies into if they could and it should be a warning sign to the rest of."
"Western modern Weaponry is crucial in dealing blows to the Russian army and advancing the Ukrainian Armed Forces."
"The global South is rebelling against the Western order led by the United States."
"The world is on its way to multi-polarity, Western dominance about to end." - Tony Blair
"A significant step towards reducing Western control."
"The West no longer has technological superiority."
"Throughout the process since Bashir's fall, it's been the military that the West has cozied up to, saying they're willing to do a deal."
"The single story of Africa ultimately comes, I think, from Western literature."
"The Western countries that Putin described as enemies have now become the greatest hope of the Russian people."
"Silence the West through control of Western organizations and companies inside China."
"It seems like there used to be male gay people in Japan and they were accepted before Western culture came into Japan."
"We started this war in Ukraine. What do you mean 'we'? I mean the West, the United States, and NATO. And we knew this. We wanted this to happen."
"We need to understand the interference of the West in Ukraine's history."
"The United Front is basically the Chinese Communist Party's system for subverting the West."
"Mind Life Institute is just a project of mining, processing Buddhism into a field of mind sciences for the West."
"India's choices in 1947 and thereafter actually took what were Western values and Western practices and made them near-universal."
"Every major growth story in the last 150 years has actually paradoxically happened with the support of the West."
"I think a large part of that answer is obviously with that but I think one part of that answer is also with the West."
"These centuries of stability disappeared with the arrival of the West and the transformation of East Asia."
"China and Russia are leading a world independent from Western dictats."
"Every single thing that's been produced from the buildings to the art, the music of the West is also just looked at through this anti-racism lens."
"That Century of humiliation still shapes the views of many Chinese especially political leaders towards the west and in particular Britain to this day."
"The West needs India for a variety of reasons but I would give you the simplest historical argument for it which is that every major growth story in the last 150 years has actually paradoxically happened with the support of the West."
"The world needs to wake up to the fact that there is no plan B for Ukraine. Ukraine is going to die a miserable death thanks to the West."
"The encroachment of the West eastward is something Russia won't allow."
"Putin's action in Ukraine challenges the narrative of Ukrainian sovereignty and exposes Western meddling."
"Ramon Decker: one of the greatest Western Legends in Muay Thai history."
"The Western world's ideas are so ingrained that we need to be more critical and not assume they're all correct."
"I feel like Nintendo is going to explore a more western design game."
"People are frustrated with the kind of colonial way in which the Western powers and the Western media reports things." - Vijay Prashad
"Trigun, a story of bounty hunters and outlaws, is basically anime's take on old westerns, with Million Dollar Man Vash the Stampede spreading his message of love and peace."
"China wanted to produce Western technology possess western style weapons and continue to advance at a pace at least matching the Western Powers."
"Pakistan is a very authentic place that hasn't gone full West style yet."
"It's not as if America is not involved in Africa, but it's, you know, in many ways, the sort of Western neocolonial strategy in this part of the world is sort of led by France, not led by America."
"The danger of allowing Western propaganda to poison people's minds."
"All Japan was now hopelessly swept by this anti Western feeling and nothing could stop its force from rushing to the ultimate consequence."
"The reality is Brothers, the reality is that the Muslims have become a joke because we've tended to change our ways to please the people of the West."
"The West is today the biggest threat to the world."
"Not since the Cold War has it been so clear what a world without the West would look like."
"She introduced the Western legal systems, she abolished death by a thousand cards."
"Christians of all denominations during this time strived for independence from the west and advocated for self-determination."
"We were lucky that because of historical circumstances, the West opened the doors to us."
"The West has been so vital to nearly every single aspect of modern history that removing it would completely change the history of the world's direction."
"The sophistication and acculturation with the West is going to mean the potential for what I think of as a bright sun to the West's Black Mirror."
"The concept of gay being a big no-no is overwhelmingly a Western concept."
"There has been a massive rise in Indian Cinema, especially as of late in the western culture."
"They found no simple answer; they took what they could from the West that they thought they could use to help them save the country."
"South Africa is very modern like a Western country; you will feel like you're in the US, Germany, or the UK."
"It's been really refreshing to see all the ideas flooding the west by the break up of the Soviet Union."
"Western culture in television seems to glorify independence, violence, sensuality, and consumerism."
"There's a huge wave of progressivism; there's contact with the West through social media."
"Cowboy Bebop is a western that happens to be in the anime."
"Russia's younger generations are more open to the West and they have been even more open and receptive to the West in recent years, despite all of the anti-Western rhetorics that we have seen from state TV."