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Popular surgeries include "Westernizing" the nose to give it an upward tilt and double-eyelid surgery to make eyes look bigger, which is especially popular with young women.
FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2010
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The cable doesn't ask, for instance, whether along with "Westernizing" some of the audience, the prevalence of
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Popular surgeries include "Westernizing" the nose to give it an upward tilt and double-eyelid surgery to make eyes look bigger, which is especially popular with young women.
FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2010
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English traces the rise of a "Westernizing" worldview from the post-Stalin years, through a group of liberals in the late1960s -- 70s, to a circle of close advisers who spurred Gorbachev's most radical reforms.
AvaxHome RSS: lexa6a 2009
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They had very much to do with what they viewed as his "Westernizing" tendencies.
Dandelion Salad 2009
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Unfortunately, even if you do follow Stein's idea of assimilation -- dressing American and Westernizing your name (say, from Piyush to Bobby, or Nirmrata to Nikki) -- in today's political climate, it doesn't actually make you American enough to avoid being called a raghead.
Shiwani Srivastava: Joel Stein's Beef With Indians Hurts Everyone 2010
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Unfortunately, even if you do follow Stein's idea of assimilation -- dressing American and Westernizing your name (say, from Piyush to Bobby, or Nirmrata to Nikki) -- in today's political climate, it doesn't actually make you American enough to avoid being called a raghead.
Shiwani Srivastava: Joel Stein's Beef With Indians Hurts Everyone Shiwani Srivastava 2010
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He writes, "If anyone asked, my grandmother would say that she was in favor of Atatürk's Westernizing project, but in fact -- and in this she was like everyone else in the city -- neither the East nor the West interested her."
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But invading Iraq was particularly absurd since Osama bin Laden hated Saddam and called him Satan for Westernizing Iraq.
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The sheik interrupted: The women in this gathering, out of respect for our Islamic faith, are rejecting the Westernizing of our Palestinian women.
Unveiled Deborah Kanafani 2008
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