The large training datasets that do exist tend to be largely Western-centric and in particular American-centric, often largely depicting white individuals of European descent engaging in Western activities in Western backgrounds and contexts.
I think LGBT kids of color go through more challenging adversities than LGBT youth from Western backgrounds.
Furthermore, both CALD patient populations studied are from Western backgrounds.
Like many writers of non-western backgrounds in the west, Rushdie had suffered the ambiguous fate of being hastily appointed as a representative and spokesperson of India, South Asia, the "third world", multiculturalism, the immigrant condition – whatever seemed alien and incomprehensible to the white majority.
Against a desolate Western background of shantytowns and trailer parks, the pair's story plays out largely according to the genre's dictates, with wisecrack-laden dialogue and evenly dispersed cliffhangers that are a legacy of the work's genesis as a serialization in Playboy.
We classified ethnic origin using the definition of Statistics Netherlands into 'Dutch', 'Western background' or 'non-Western background' (Statistics Netherlands 2004).
However, I reject false dichotomies, they like many people in this region and the rest of the world were interested in my Western background.
Ethnic background was based on the definition of Statistics Netherlands: Dutch (both parents born in the Netherlands), Western background (at least one parent born in another country in Europe except for Turkey, or born in Oceania, Indonesia, North-America or Japan) or non-Western background (at least one parent born in Africa, Latin-America, Asia or Turkey) [ 32].
This understanding of intermarriage being problematic if the spouses are of non-Western background corresponds with previous ethnographic studies carried out in Sweden (e.g. Gerholm, 2003; Begovic, 2003).
Sooner or later, just about every writer of non-Western background finds himself taken to be a representative of, or spokesperson for, his community, nation, race, or religion.
