Sentence examples for western superiority from inspiring English sources
Chinese are touchy about perceived Western superiority, too.
It was intended as a symbol of Western superiority and a triumph over nature.
Humiliated, the general confronts all that his Western superiority had him ignore.
There are few places where the ingrained assumption of western superiority survives better than in commentaries on the Ottoman empire.
Around the time Haeckel was promoting his racial theories, a different theory of western superiority was developed by Marx.
Equally smug conservatives use him to justify the unearned notion of western religious superiority over other faiths.
The Soviets, however, saw antiship missiles as a counter to Western naval superiority and developed an extensive range of air- and surface-launched antiship missiles, beginning with the AS-1 Kennel.
In "Bellicose and Thuggish," Mr. Liu offers a disturbing analysis of the imperial and Maoist roots of today's ultranationalism, sprung from China's "underlying arrogance and self-centeredness," which, faced with Western technological superiority, is trapped "in a vicious cycle between self-abasement and self-aggrandizement".
Although the language of the international humanitarian community has since shifted to a rights-based narrative, aided by the development of international humanitarian law (ibid), it is not unimaginable that these notions still exist, especially when it comes to sexual violence in conflict where the pain and suffering of others become the source of white, western moral superiority (Razack 2007).
"Western military technological superiority, a core assumption of the past two decades, is eroding," Chipman added.
