westernizing

And with all the talk of 'westernizing' this or that, I realise that a lot of us are comfortable with the idea of getting respect at all cost by having people add either "brother, sister, aunty, uncle, Mrs, Mr, Dr, Chief" to our names and failure to do so make those people disrespectful to us.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

And with all the talk of 'westernizing' this or that, I realise that a lot of us are comfortable with the idea of getting respect at all cost by having people add either "brother, sister, aunty, uncle, Mrs, Mr, Dr, Chief" to our names and failure to do so make those people disrespectful to us.

"I am Aunty Mary" 2009

It's the sort of place where, you know, you sense that Pakistan is westernizing.

Democracy Now!: Was Osama bin Laden Living on Pakistani Military Property? Democracy Now! 2011

I truly enjoyed this portrait of an average teen in a progressive westernizing Muslim country.

Reader reviews of A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar. 2008

An apparently impregnable, westernizing autocrat, smiled upon by America, with a huge army, an efficient secret police and burgeoning oil revenues, had been brought down almost overnight without a shot being fired.

Michael Hughes: The Stupidity of Saudi Senior Clerics Michael Hughes 2010

This fusion is bringing more Muslim girls within the fold of the Islamic dress code rather than westernizing them.

Betwa Sharma: Making the Hijab Work 2009

Two months ago, the government launched a new round of crackdowns on women's dress code, to ensure it adapts to Islamic standards, and that women do not continue to push the boundaries by westernizing their appearance.

Omid Memarian: YouTube: The Battle of Technology vs. Censorship 2008

This paper reinterprets the standard narrative as the result of the institutional compromises struck between the Orthodox Church, westernizing revolutionary Greeks and local leaders at the moment of creation of the Greek state, rather than a reflection of the legal realities on the ground.

Archive 2008-10-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

This paper reinterprets the standard narrative as the result of the institutional compromises struck between the Orthodox Church, westernizing revolutionary Greeks and local leaders at the moment of creation of the Greek state, rather than a reflection of the legal realities on the ground.

Tsoukala on Marrying Family Law to the Nation Mary L. Dudziak 2008

They live in Inner Mongolia, the western Silk Road region of Xinjiang and other lands outside central China's westernizing cities.

Delicacies From 'Beyond The Great Wall' 2008