However, practitioners of traditional religions might take issue with the Western tendency toward individual exploration in this area.
Perhaps sensing our peculiarly western tendency to get sucked into conceptual circles, many Buddhist teachers now emphasise practices that aim to reconnect us to our bodies.
In conversation, Mr. Ting touched on another point: the wide varieties of Asian identity, and the general western tendency to lump all Asians into a single category.
And Chinese authors are reluctant to surrender to the Western tendency to pigeonhole them as either collaborators or dissidents, categories that fail to reflect the more nuanced reality of writing in today's China.
At the same time, this emphasis goes against the Western tendency to appreciate Japanese culture primarily for its elevation of more lowly forms -- like ceramics, lacquer and textiles -- to the level of high art while limiting its two-dimensional achievement to well-known accomplishments like woodblock prints and screens.
When Hindus speak of their religious identity as sanatana dharma, they emphasize its continuous, seemingly eternal (sanatana) existence and the fact that it describes a web of customs, obligations, traditions, and ideals (dharma) that far exceeds the Western tendency to think of religion primarily as a system of beliefs.
Coffee, by contrast, is defined by that single key ingredient caffeol, which stands apart from the other flavours – perhaps an apt metaphor for a Western tendency to draw boundaries between the body and spirit, say.
Imperium delves into the extremist psychology behind such a rejection of society and traditional foods, satirizing the white, Western tendency to seek purity by relocating to a different, exoticized society, as well as the "genteel" racism endemic to such colonizing.
The other thing is that women often dress modestly in Moroccan culture, and the Western tendency to want to run around in tank tops and short when it's hot (it's usually hot!) is outside their custom.
In addition, he gained an intimate understanding of and respect for local people and practices, stating: " One thing that I had to keep fighting was my Western tendency to think that ' our' way is better, and also to only question and analyze what was happening, and not criticize.
Moreover, Russia was concerned that the Liberals were starting to follow the same pro-Western tendencies as the Conservatives.
