Sentences with phrase «western legal culture»

Where the Western legal culture typically embraces confrontation, and finding the «winner» and «loser» in a dispute, the Asia Pacific region has traditionally stressed the virtues of compromise and harmony.

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I think this is partially because in some Western cultures, it was half - acceptable if not legal to let unwanted or sickly infants die from either malnutrition or intentional suffocation.

While it was mostly a product of industrialization, the infant murder existed in some form or another in all Western cultures already from the beginning of Christianization, when it was no longer legal to end an unwanted child's life right after birth.

While the Huffington Post had no qualms about labeling the Lankao home illegal, a closer look at China's local culture suggests that the black / white, legal / illegal dichotomy which presupposes so much of our (Western) thinking about society, is not apposite in the Chinese context.

Western culture is characterized by a host of artistic, philosophic, literary, and legal themes and traditions; the heritage of Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Jewish, Slavic, Latin, and other ethnic and linguistic groups, as well as Christianity, which played an important part in the shaping of Western civilization since at least the 4th century.

The Health Secretary says there is an average wait of 11.5 years for compensation, that legal action is costly, that stillbirth rates in the UK are amongst the highest in Western Europe and that a «blame culture» is one of the problems standing in the way of improved safety.