China is not like the West, and it will not become like the West.

looking at it through Western eyes, using Western concepts.

Gharbeia writes

A century and a half ago, Japan became the first non Western country to adapt successfully to modern globalization.

Turkish culture is a product of efforts to be a modern Western state, while maintaining traditional religious and historical values.

But rarely has a Western country s foreign policy been so exposed to its prime minister s private interests.

Once again, we see how misplaced Western national priorities can bring ruin on a non Western nation.

Akram Ghabiyeh, 30

'Oh, but this a Western standard.'

The optimism bias has been observed in many different countries in Western cultures, in non Western cultures, in females and males, in kids, in the elderly.

Gharbeia then replied ...

Her sari had a cowgirl motif

The duty to intervene and the cost of indifference is probably higher for France than for any other Western country.

The northwesterly and southwesterly winds are sometimes to a maximum speed of 21 m s.

Although all new member states claim to be western, some are more Western than others.

Next challenge, the Biennial of the Americas in Denver asked, could I represent the 35 nations of the Western hemisphere and their interconnectedness in a sculpture?

Until I stir the people from the east to the west, and I have origins there

So it's not simply a Western phenomenon.

Japan was the first country to begin modernising its legal system along western lines, by importing bits of the French, but mostly the German Civil Code.

In fact, in today's China, the political participation at the grassroots level is much higher than any western country you can name of.

And Egyptian activist and blogger Ahmad Gharbeia wonders

As the first non Western country that drew even with the West in modernity while showing that it is possible to maintain a unique culture, Japan has more potential soft power resources than any other Asian country. Today Japan ranks first in the world in the number of patents, third in expenditure on research and development as a share of GDP, second in book sales and music sales, and highest for life expectancy.

Ben Gharbia also urges bloggers to stand by Al Farhan, by publishing his plight.

غرضهم كويس، لكنهم مش فاهمين. مش هنخسر حاجة و يمكن نتعلم.

Amr Gharbeia's most recent post is entitled Standing in the face of torture.

Is this business about appearance and preoccupation with it a Western phenomenon?

Israel and a number of other countries do not recognise Palestine, taking the position that the establishment of this state can only be determined through direct negotiations between Israel and the PNA.

And yet we still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it through Western eyes, using Western concepts.

Lepage is the first western journalist to be killed in the fighting.

I moved to Dubai as the head of original content for a Western TV network.

Yes. One has to ask some very strange things in the job I have.

Moreover, between 1950 and 2008, only 28 economies in the world and only 12 non Western economies were able to narrow their per capita income gap with the United States by ten percentage points or more.

Global economic policy making remains very much a Western game.

This is a consistent finding of opinion polls in westernized countries.

There are no peculiarly Western or Eastern mobile phones or financial derivatives.

Sami Ben Gharbia shares more about the blogger Ali Abdulemam is a leading Bahraini blogger and Global Voices Advocacy author, and founder of Bahrain s popular BahrainOnline forum.

Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad.

These principles are universal they are not Eastern, Western, Southern or Northern.

She lives in New York City, but she doesn't try to be a Western artist.

So it comes from the southwest. It's a southwest monsoon.

Throughout his presidency, Putin repeatedly invoked Russia as an ancient, powerful, and divinely ordained state going back a thousand years, a civilization separate from the West, neither Communist nor a western liberal democracy.

Having gone to university in western countries, we were inspired by the American system of check and balances.

Stalin s empire needed no foreign classical orchestras.

Dutch is a West Germanic language, that originated from the Old Frankish dialects.

And one activist actually found a contract from a Western company for the sale of surveillance technology to the Egyptian security forces.