Westernizing

And with all the talk of 'westernizing' this or that, I realise that a lot of us are comfortable with the idea of getting respect at all cost by having people add either "brother, sister, aunty, uncle, Mrs, Mr, Dr, Chief" to our names and failure to do so make those people disrespectful to us. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's the sort of place where, you know, you sense that Pakistan is westernizing. ❋ Democracy Now! (2011)

I truly enjoyed this portrait of an average teen in a progressive westernizing Muslim country. ❋ Unknown (2008)

An apparently impregnable, westernizing autocrat, smiled upon by America, with a huge army, an efficient secret police and burgeoning oil revenues, had been brought down almost overnight without a shot being fired. ❋ Michael Hughes (2010)

This fusion is bringing more Muslim girls within the fold of the Islamic dress code rather than westernizing them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Two months ago, the government launched a new round of crackdowns on women's dress code, to ensure it adapts to Islamic standards, and that women do not continue to push the boundaries by westernizing their appearance. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This paper reinterprets the standard narrative as the result of the institutional compromises struck between the Orthodox Church, westernizing revolutionary Greeks and local leaders at the moment of creation of the Greek state, rather than a reflection of the legal realities on the ground. ❋ Mary L. Dudziak (2008)

They live in Inner Mongolia, the western Silk Road region of Xinjiang and other lands outside central China's westernizing cities. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We attempt to change these countries by westernizing and secularizing the beliefs of the worlds 1.3 billion Muslims. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Incidentally, Variety had earlier reported that she would be westernizing her name for this and future films to Gianna Jun. ❋ Unknown (2007)

WOMAN didn't disappoint and PITFALL and FACE OF ANOTHER (pictured above) are equally compelling and gorgeously photographed meditations on post-war life in a rapidly modernizing (and westernizing) Japan. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As this theory goes, what starts as resentment against the westernizing influence of Christianity explodes into rage against Muslims and ultimately political gain for the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party BJP. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Like his brother Abdulmejid, Abdulaziz was committed to the vigorous pursuit of westernizing reforms in the empire. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Conservative clerical forces subsequently crushed westernizing liberal elements. ❋ United States. Central Intelligence Agency (N/A)

At one time the party which favored westernizing has prevailed at court; at another time the old Russian or pan-Slavic party. ❋ William Graham Sumner (1875)

Some rich cultural traditions are just too [interesting] for most [Americans] so they have to [westernize] them. ❋ Voluspa (2009)

Lets [kick this shit] up [western]! Ohhh man soooo western [out here] with all those horny drunks ❋ Jon Jergenstein (2012)

[Oli]. Just drop his phone and [broke it]. Max. You are having a western mate! Oli. Yer [big western]! ❋ Ed Smythe (2011)

If that [db] doesn't pay me back, shit could [get western]! When she caught her husband cheating,it got a little [western]! ❋ JessMClark (2009)

I was [born] in [Albuquerque] so I'm from [the Western] A ❋ Mobsta (2007)

[Suspected] al-Qaida militants have killed three westerners in the past week in the [Saudi] [capital] ❋ Masongr (2014)

I was [having sex] with [my girl] [the other day], and I pulled The Western on her ❋ 1ManBand (2011)

Average citizen: Pfft, I'm not run by a hedonistic, greedy government. [It just works] and I don't know how it works but it [works for me]. Communist: [Westernization] is flawed. It succumbs to the minority while cultivating the majority. Objective observer (isd'kn'): Both [westernization] and communism could be perfect societies if they provide for the needs of everybody. Capitalism makes its majority dumb and it's minority extremely wealthy (those that produce and those that consume). Communism, on the other hand conforms to what society needs. Capitalism creates a culture while communism has little culture, it works like mechanics. ❋ A_guy_with_this_for_a_name! (2014)

I was born in [Albuquerque] so i'm from the Western [A-Town] or [Western A]. ❋ Bloodz4life (2007)

"We already [know that] [West Ham] are favourites for [relegation], you've had an absolute Western" ❋ The_Western_Octopus (2020)