Sentence examples for western habit from inspiring English sources

'Cause they look on cheese as this gross, Western habit — it's like sour milk LARD.

Reversing the anthropological lens, she scrutinizes the Western habit of scrutinizing others.

The last time he was in Java, he recalled, he stayed in a Muslim village near the beach, and found the people generally relaxed and welcoming, if somewhat hostile to the Western habit of lying in the sun without clothing.

Achebe believes that "Heart of Darkness" is an example of the Western habit of setting up Africa "as a foil to Europe, a place of negations...in comparison with which Europe's own state of spiritual grace will be manifest".

But this US and western habit of playing with jihadi groups, which then come back to bite them, goes back at least to the 1980s war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, which fostered the original al-Qaida under CIA tutelage.

The guestrooms in Samthar have electricity, en-suite bathrooms with Western-style toilets and sinks with running water, unlike most homes in the village, and buckets of hot water are lugged up to your room for bathing; some other sites may be more basic, with kerosene lamps, indoor squat toilets and jugs of water in place of the toilet paper that strikes many Indians as a frivolous Western habit.

I also notice that as countries become more Westernized and exposed to Western culture, they start to pick up Western habits.

Mr. Ramadan, 42, has written extensively about the challenges of blending Islam with Western habits and values.

That may not sound like a lot but the world population is growing, as are our western habits.

Over time, as they pick up Western habits, some develop Western ailments, too, like obesity, diabetes and heart disease, and yet they often question the unfamiliar lifelong treatments these chronic diseases need.

For millions of second-generation immigrants in Europe, people who are often tugged between strict tradition and freewheeling Western habits, the failure is an emblem of the unsettling contradictions of their lives.