Western culture
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- noun
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cultura occidental
- Many people in Western culture are striving for success.
- canon of Western culture
- Western culture and society
- perspectives of Western culture
But I think maybe in Western culture, people are encouraged more to hold on to things.
- But I think maybe in Western culture, people are encouraged more to hold on to things.
- So we value the we over the me, which is a difference between Western culture and Eastern culture.
- And that has passed into modern Western cultures.
- There's a really old theory in Western culture that scientists call veneer theory.
- These sorts of things are part of Westernization, part of, you could say, a broader Western culture.
- And they roughly translate the term spirit to that, although I think it has a vast difference in meaning to that of Western culture.
- Thus, the notion that genius presupposes originality is not only unique to Western culture.
- Now, look, I'm not saying that that can happen in Western culture, but well, we could do a better job than we do now.
- But I've always had like, body issues like so many women have growing up in, you know, this Western culture.
- They're trying to get rid of western heritage and western culture and even destroy statues of the West former leaders.
Examples
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And in Western culture, it's certainly not unknown.
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Hong Kong was thereby transformed into a solitary island of Western culture and civilization in Asia.
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So we value the we over the me, which is a difference between Western culture and Eastern culture.
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But I think maybe in Western culture, people are encouraged more to hold on to things.
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So in most Western cultures, the first time people touch is when they shake hands.
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In our Western culture, a person is rewarded for being thin.
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We were a pillar of Western culture.
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The problem we have is that Western culture has a habit of ignoring future consequences.
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Irakau's extensive experience with Western culture was the foundation of his entrepreneurial success.
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The principles of Western culture and freedom are foundational elements that shape the society we live in.
Synonyms
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Culture, ideas, and social systems of Western Europe and North America that began in ancient Greece and Rome
Ideas and attitudes that favour Western ways over Eastern ones
How Western
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'western' (pertaining to the West) combined with 'culture' (shared ideas and practices) yields 'the culture of Western countries.' This is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common combination that a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer.
Etymology
Western culture comes from calling some countries the West, meaning Europe and North America, and joining that word to culture, which means shared customs, values and ways of living. Because these countries traded, traveled and set up colonies, their ways of living spread, so today 'Western culture' means the common social customs and habits that began in those places.