Definitions

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  • adjective Not western.
  • noun A film that is not a western.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ western

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Examples

  • Such impositions of Western values on the unwilling human populations residing within nonwestern social spheres is not wisdom, as the recent proliferation of world terrorism and the bombings of both the Kenya and Tanzania U.S.

    Radovan Karadzic's website and blog 2008

  • Using a more culturally relative model, as I propose, would greatly assist Western scholars of the political and social sciences to better understand and resolve international relations disputes regarding nationalism as well as war and peace within nonwestern governed countries.

    Radovan Karadzic's website and blog 2008

  • Notwithstanding, the conflagrations of worldwide nationalism and genocidal civil wars currently existing in nonwestern geo-political domains and their social spaces, such as in Bosnia, Kosovo, Kasmir, and elsewhere, neither have any end in sight nor many plausible political solutions for peaceful resolutions.

    Radovan Karadzic's website and blog 2008

  • In return for Wilders 'support, his political allies have promised to turn away more asylum-seekers and cut immigration from nonwestern countries in half.

    Geert Wilders, Anti-Islam Dutch Politician, On Trial For Hate Speech Charges AP 2010

  • British colonialists undertook this task by trying to conquer India's nonwestern imagined communal populations by imposing Christianity upon them along with Western European normative social standards of behavior.

    Radovan Karadzic's website and blog 2008

  • Similar declarations make the French government's position clear in that Islamic and other nonwestern cultural immigrants are not easily tolerated within French constitutional law.

    Radovan Karadzic's website and blog 2008

  • John 10:19 pm: Go to different, nonwestern cultures.

    Transcript: Non-Human Characters « Coyote Con 2010

  • In other words, Britain expanded its original prime colonial focus in India from merely establishing economic hegemony over India's public worldly materialistic sphere by dominating and subjugating India for capitalist profit by exploitation to also establishing hegemony over India's nonwestern private social-spiritual sphere (familial, cultural, and spiritual).

    Radovan Karadzic's website and blog 2008

  • Formulating nonwestern Indian nationalist liberation ideology required that indigenous Indian nationalists cultivate a way in which they could selectively incorporate certain necessary materialistic aspects (political, military, and economic) of Western modern culture into the nonwestern Indian national project and its discourse while rejecting others.

    Radovan Karadzic's website and blog 2008

  • The next section will more intensely inquire into the social development of nonwestern Indian nationalist discourse as a response to British colonialism in India.

    Radovan Karadzic's website and blog 2008

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