westerner
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- noun
- /ˈwɛstərnər/
- We Westerners have a weakness... for these spiritually inclined men of India.
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Watch on YouTubeSeems as if we Westerners value, in monetary terms, originality almost above everything else in science and in art.
- Seems as if we Westerners value, in monetary terms, originality almost above everything else in science and in art.
- Culturally as westerners we do not eat liver.
- Americans, maybe Westerners more broadly, think evil is someone with a wacky mustache pounding a podium, talking in a crazy language.
- And even justify their slavery and subjugation and genocide at the hands of clever Westerners.
- For example, we would go to the souk to go shopping and Westerners standing in line at the cash register waiting to pay.
- Cassian takes Vegas's lisp, and he's a Latin Westerner.
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Seems as if we Westerners value, in monetary terms, originality almost above everything else in science and in art.
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To many Westerners, it seemed a paradise.
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Where is the Westerner sitting?
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Half of that for a Westerner.
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You know, we, us westerners have not had a war.
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I was humbled beyond measure to be the first Westerner ever allowed to film inside one of these seminaries.
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For example, we would go to the souk to go shopping and Westerners standing in line at the cash register waiting to pay.
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The great majority of Westerners, particularly Americans, do not know the difference between Persia and Iran.
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Americans, maybe Westerners more broadly, think evil is someone with a wacky mustache pounding a podium, talking in a crazy language.
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As a westerner, I was fascinated by the diverse cultures I encountered during my travels through Asia.
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Etymology
The word westerner comes from west, which means 'the direction where the sun sets', and the ending -er meaning 'a person'. Today westerner often means someone from 'the West' (Europe or North America), so it names people from that part of the world.