Occidental

//ˌɒk.səˈdɛn.təl//

"Occidental" in a Sentence (11 examples)

The international language Interlingue was published in 1922 under the name Occidental.

Christianity affects most of this globe as even Arab countries must use the occidental calendar for international negotiations and Japanese moderately celebrate Halloween and Christmas.

Japanese may be different from other ethnicities due to more use of the dextral brain. The sinistral brain predominates occidental vicissitudes.

My locality is a nexus for occidental and oriental interplay, which is abundant in emotional undulations.

The language Interlingue was once called Occidental.

Walking through the crosswalk in Downtown Vancouver, BC, many years ago, a Native Indian woman looked at my face and said, "Don't smile!" I could see on her face how foreign Occidental culture really strained her life.

Born in the Philippines, I had the nickname Nonong, as my family intuitively knew that Orientalism imbued me from childhood. I grew up with the official name Victor like an Occidental in Batangas, Quezon City, and Lulu Island. Though I was nominally a Roman Catholic at birth, Buddha statues and wild bison attracted me as a child. Today, I am a Syncretist, but chiefly a Buddhist-Animist, and I believe in Science. I know that Buddhism is an advanced psychology and that biology can explain Animism. Of Buddhist kinds, I have encountered Zen from Japanese, Theravāda from Thais, and Pure Land from Chinese. Red Indians, Shintoists, Daoists, Oz Aborigines, Eskimos, Pacific Islanders, and other indigenous peoples have imbued my Animistic thoughts.

I want to start speaking Occidental with you.

Why do you speak Occidental?

occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet.

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Most occidentals resident in South China have joined the Chinese in their zealous enthusiasm for the lychee.

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