Sentence examples for western mindset from inspiring English sources

Shostakovich has to be either a great dissident or a party toady; there is no room in the western mindset for him to be both.

But, as she quite scornfully points out, "the western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous".

His fiction can be intellectually tough and dauntingly technical as well as passionately engaged with characters and worlds at the margins of the western mindset such as rainforests, oceans and swamps.

Likewise, many of these comically oriented Asian and Asian-American performers are very good at what they do, so the problem isn't with them, but rather with the racism and neo-Orientalism prevalent in the mainstream American (and Western) mindset that blinds this society from seeing and accepting the full spectrum of Asian and Asian American people.

Phillip Schanker, a spokesman for the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, International, which placed the ad, said he could not vouch for its accuracy -- "it is very far from the Western mindset" -- but added, "We're not requesting that people believe this, we're just putting it out there".

There is something in the Western mindset that arouses a near irresistible urge to climb a peak.

"I figured that being a Chinese-American and a Mandarin speaker, I should be better equipped to understand the cultural nuances and liaise between the Eastern and Western mindsets, potentially becoming a corporate diplomat," she says.

Over the past month or so we have been presented with a very clearly defined baddies and goodies story – that's if you suffer from the western liberal mindset that I have.

Perhaps the word "pagan" embodies the most deeply embedded prejudice in the Western, civilized mindset -- the first and last justification for global dominance.

"The veneration of relics is not within the western European cultural mindset.

But with influence and respect come responsibility, and lately Wikipedia has been criticized from without and within for reflecting a Western, male-dominated mindset similar to the perspective behind the encyclopedias it has replaced.