And the grandmother had never let any Westerners ever see her.

Every time any Westerners came to the village, she hid the girl.

This fool war started in the East. What's us Westerners doing in it?

19 percent of the world's population today, Westerners own two thirds of its wealth.

And, of course, as Westerners, we say, Well, it was an accident. That's not fair.

Now you, as Westerners, and I, as Westerners, would say well, that's superstition. But after being there for a while, and seeing the amazing things that happened, you begin to wonder whose beliefs are those that are in operation in the world, determining how things happen.

And we know that most of it is currently owned by people we might call Westerners Europeans, North Americans, Australasians.

No one in the village would tell me where Hyun Sook was, because the grandmother had always hidden her from Westerners.

I made this film because I felt it's important for it to speak to the Westerners about our history as a country.

Normally speaking, Chinese people consider rice to be an important food the majority of Westerners consider fast food to be an important food.

The majority of Chinese may not want to be governed like Westerners, but it would be wrong to assume that their only ambition is to spend like Westerners. The more successful they are, the more individualistic they will become and the more they will expect the respect and consideration of those who govern them.

And Westerners, Europeans or Americans, who didn't know about this before faced this practice within some of the Muslim communities who migrated from North Africa.

On the other hand, the Westerners who look at Islamic culture and see some troubling aspects should not readily conclude that this is what Islam ordains.

The interpreter was unable to translate the word Westerner into Korean, when Mr. Choi was asked whether any Westerners participated in the planning of the incident.

The same is true of trade in solar equipment today. Westerners should thank Chinese panel producers for their contribution to keeping solar power viable, not penalize them through protectionist anti dumping measures.

Unlike their neighbors in Egypt, Libyans are not clamoring for the elections deemed by many Westerners to be of paramount importance. Instead, they have drawn on a patience rooted in their traditional political apathy.

How can we ensure that technology meets the needs of the poor and does not simply increase the divide between laptop owning, Blackberry using Westerners like me and the poor in India or China?

All Zaire apos s problems are blamed on the United Nations, westerners in general, Tanzania (for organizing the Arusha Conference), Burundi and Rwanda these allegations culminate in a call for the liberation of Kivu.

PARIS Violent attacks on US diplomatic outposts across North Africa and the Middle East have once again raised the question of how to respond when Americans and other Westerners engage in provocative expression that others consider blasphemous.

Some claim that the ideal of sexual equality represents a particular cultural viewpoint, and that we Westerners should not seek to impose our values on other cultures. It is true that Islamic texts assert in various ways the superiority of men to women.

Given such systemic debasement of merit, few Chinese citizens believe that they are governed by the best and the brightest. But astonishingly, the myth of a Chinese meritocracy remains very much alive among Westerners who have encountered impressively credentialed officials like Bo.

During the past decade particularly since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States Westerners have generally considered international terrorism to be the most urgent threat to human security. Accordingly, vast resources have been mobilized and expended to counter its many forms.

So, as the Oxford historian Margaret Macmillan argues in her book The Peacemakers, Syria s leaders, remembering these events when Westerners probably did not, took the opportunity presented by the Black September crisis of 1970 to send troops to their country s lost lands.

Because many scholars who study the history of Islamic thought Muslim scholars or Westerners think that actually the practice of dividing men and women physically came as a later development in Islam, as Muslims adopted some preexisting cultures and traditions of the Middle East.

Consider Pakistan and South Africa, where a dearth of generating capacity means recurrent blackouts that wreak havoc on businesses and cost jobs. Yet the funding of new coal fired power plants in both countries has been widely opposed by well meaning Westerners and governments.

But it does mean that we can quit panicking and start thinking calmly to ensure that we focus on the right issues. Global alarm bells might cause pangs of guilt for wealthy Westerners, but they don t give us an adequate understanding of what s going on.

There was a brief political infatuation among some Westerners in the 1960 s with Nehru jackets and Maoist revolution, but it was brief. As John Lennon sang in 1968, if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain t gonna make it with anyone anyhow.

Some believe that we are experiencing a new kind of conflict culture wars, such as those between Sunni and Shiite Muslims or tribal groups in Africa and Asia, or indeed Islamists and Westerners. However, the deeper reasons for some of these conflicts may well be more traditional.

Intuitive Surgical s da Vinci robot reduces the need for surgical assistants in operating rooms and the Engkey robot teaching English in South Korea may gradually fill the 30,000 teaching positions that Westerners there currently occupy. Increasingly sophisticated algorithms are replacing currency traders, paralegals, and even news reporters.

With Islamic fundamentalism, too, we are not witnessing a traditional religion asserting itself against the Christian West. When the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan in 1996, they initially had excellent relations with the Americans, and Westerners could travel freely in Afghanistan between 1996 and 1998.

In the early 1990 s, many westerners and Russians wanted Russia to become a full fledged member of both the European Union and NATO, on the condition that Russia became a full fledged democracy. Unfortunately, the West never made that offer, and Russian democracy went astray.

The great reforms of the past, including the liberation of the serfs in 1861, followed many years of discussions among westerners, slavophiles, and others. The revolutions of 1905 and 1917 also came at a time when those discussions were finished, and everyone knew who stood for what.

Most Westerners think the answer is liberal democracy, as did many Chinese liberals in the twentieth century. But there is another answer, which takes the form of the old and venerable tradition of Confucianism, which is being revived by government officials, critical intellectuals, and ordinary citizens.

The system s crimes have been evident for years, and it is tragic that no international power has been able to punish it. Westerners who think otherwise and have acquiesced in Russia s actions in Ukraine do so for no other reason than their own greed, fear, or self deception.

In 2012, China is on the verge of becoming the world s largest economy and is by far the leading emerging power. Yet two simultaneous phenomena suggest that the West may have been buried prematurely by its own Cassandras and by Asian pundits who sometimes behave like arrogant Westerners.

This provoked a small firestorm of distortion in the West Wolf Wants to Institutionalize the Burka, etc. It was depressing to see a simple appeal for Westerners to listen to Muslim women deliberately distorted into a representation of all Muslim women as meek, will less beings in need of rescue.

The ideological vacuum left by the death of Marxist orthodoxy was filled with nationalism. And nationalism in China, promoted through schools, mass media, and patriotic monuments and museums, means one thing only the firm rule of the CCP will prevent foreigners, especially Westerners and the Japanese, from humiliating Chinese ever again.

His clear priority is the Islamic Republic s survival, not the fate of particular Iranian politicians. While Ahmedinejad s apocalyptic vision makes it difficult for westerners to deal with him, Khamenei does not want to stumble into a military confrontation with the West, which would destabilize Iran and possibly lead to the regime s downfall.

In its rush to have westerners buy the banks, the IMF forgot one detail to ensure that South Korea could recapture at least a fraction of those gains through taxation. Whether US investors had greater expertise in banking in emerging markets may be debatable that they had greater expertise in tax avoidance is not.

Xenophobes, as well as leftist multi cultural ideologues, regarded these new Europeans as utterly different from the native born, albeit for different reasons. Multi culturalists saw attempts to integrate non Westerners into the Western mainstream as a form of neo colonialist racism, while xenophobes just didn t like anything that looked, talked, or smelled foreign.

In order to navigate the complex market state relationship and achieve a beneficial outcome, Chinese policymakers must have a clear idea of where the state s limited capacity and political capital are needed most. And that presupposes a discourse on the state market relationship that is very different from the one to which Westerners are accustomed.

It is hard to think of a form of political community that requires so little allegiance from its members, proposes so few shared norms, and enforces so few behavioral guidelines. In nearly every aspect of our lives morals, manners, sexuality, family structure, careers, and religious beliefs we Westerners are essentially free to do as we like.

So long as Saddam Hussein, who had launched a brutal eight year war against Iran in the 1980s, and whom influential Westerners openly accused of seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, remained in power, the Iranian government s plan to develop nuclear weapons followed a certain realist logic. Once the US military ousted Saddam s regime in 2003, Iran s most acute security threat vanished.

But, given that daily experience places Chinese citizens in an infinitely better position than Western executives to evaluate Chinese officials and their conduct, one would have to conclude that they are almost certainly right. And that means that Westerners who have spent considerable time in China and consider themselves seasoned China hands need to ask why they have gotten it so wrong.

Putting such a moral spin on the allocation of Ebola treatments, it could be argued that Africans should be selected over Westerners, because Africa s health care systems are less able to combat the disease. But one might also contend that Western medical workers deserve higher priority because they volunteered to expose themselves to the disease, in order to help those who had no choice.