Westerner

"Westerner" in a Sentence (8 examples)

When I speak to a Westerner, I have to shift mental gears, so to speak.

As you can also tell from these beautiful, far from Japanese, looks, Yuna is not pure-blood Japanese. She's a quarter-blood with a westerner as grandmother.

The average Westerner, in his sleek complacency, will see in the tea ceremony but another instance of the thousand and one oddities which constitute the quaintness and childishness of the East to him.

Some intellectuals venture to say that sci-fi films and literature are fuzzily impacts of Orientalism. For some Westerners, looking at a sci-fi film or reading a sci-fi book resembles an adventure into the Orient. For the Westerner, it is the Self versus the Other. James Alexander Brown wrote his dissertation "American Science Fiction Cinema, Orientalism, Self & Other" to expound on just that sentimentality in the West.

If you practiced meditation, you wouldn't feel so impatient. You're a typical Westerner.

The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.

The two-storey "dome" cars, which are the outer vehicles of the centre triplet, are not for outsize Westerners, as the upper floor allows a mere 5 ft. 7 in. from floor to ceiling, while the height of the downstairs saloon is only 6 ft.

I'd wanted to find someone who understood the culinary tradition behind the cooking of ginkgo nuts because all the recipes I'd found in English were written by Westerners experimenting rather than drawing on East Asian history and practice.

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