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  • adjective Not of or relating to the West.

Etymologies

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non- + Western

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Examples

  • Prior to attempting to ban immigrants from soccer clubs, the PVV proposed adding an article to the Dutch constitution stating the cultural supremacy of Christian, Jewish and humanist beliefs and a moratorium on accepting immigrants of non-Western backgrounds into the country.

    Anita Schillhorn van Veen: Anti-Islam Dutch Party Calls for Ban on Immigrants in the Hague Soccer Clubs Anita Schillhorn van Veen 2010

  • Prior to attempting to ban immigrants from soccer clubs, the PVV proposed adding an article to the Dutch constitution stating the cultural supremacy of Christian, Jewish and humanist beliefs and a moratorium on accepting immigrants of non-Western backgrounds into the country.

    Anita Schillhorn van Veen: Anti-Islam Dutch Party Calls for Ban on Immigrants in the Hague Soccer Clubs Anita Schillhorn van Veen 2010

  • It is estimated that the large majority of non-Western nations at the UN, among the remaining 76 states will also vote in favor of the Palestinian bid, which leaves Israel with a little over 40 states whose vote is still open.

    Sigurd Neubauer: Did Netanyahu Attempt to Score Partisan Points Against Obama in Washington? Sigurd Neubauer 2011

  • Yet a growing volume of research by psychological and cultural anthropologists indicates that over three quarters of the world—the part of the world typically considered non-Western—does not share this view of the person.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • Emerging powers such as China, India, Brazil, and South Africa will be confirmed in their suspicions that the United States and Europe are not ready to accept the rise of non-Western powers.

    Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

  • If so, what strands in Western and perhaps non-Western culture account for this?

    A Syllabus for the 'Occupy' Movement Glenn Harlan Reynolds 2012

  • In the past, jewelry has been included mainly in displays of ancient or non-Western art.

    A Museum's Best Friend: Jewelry Gets Its Due 2011

  • By 2025, four of the five largest economies in the world will be non-Western and close to half of the Fortune 500 companies will originate in emerging countries.

    Klaus Schwab: Survival in the Age of Complexity Klaus Schwab 2011

  • BOOK: Want to read a book inspired by non-Western mythology where a fat teenager must get her courage together to save the people she cares about?

    In Conclusion, I Hate You All karenhealey 2010

  • There can be little doubt that the same kind of collective self that ethnographers have identified in all sorts of non-Western societies today was simply a given for early man: he or she was part of that band, part of that totem-group, whose common foraging, scavenging existence was almost all of what life consisted of.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

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