Sentences with word «westerners»

I always think it strange that westerners «translate» okonomiyaki as a Japanese pizza, as it's much closer to a pancake or even an omelet than a pizza.

It's only more recently that us Westerners have added so much meat to curry dishes and many other unhealthy additives too.

For the spices, I use half masala biryani and half curry powder (the one most westerners know with lots of turmeric, mustard, etc..)

Much like the California Roll first introduced Westerners to sushi in the 1960s by combining the raw fish with avocado, rice and seaweed, we intend our bars to serve as an introductory vehicle for insects by combining cricket flour with more familiar ingredients like nut butters and fruits.

It is an irony of their biographies that they were capable of teaching Westerners more about Islam than they imparted Christianity to Muslims.

I wonder how many westerners would feel about refugees, if they realised that Jesus looked more like their idea of «a refugee», than like their ideal of a male model?

Westerners are stupid; you are only okay com - paring to illiterate sa - va - ges.

Only filthy, uneducated Westerners hate Christianity.

The second myth about the rise of science is that Westerners only picked up the baton from the ancient Greeks, or, as has been more recently alleged, the Islamic caliphate.

I didn't find the Indian people to be any less prone to vicious gossip than Westerners.

But we can not live in despair, and for a hundred years many sensitive Westerners have been coming to terms with the possibility of a history and a personal life without morality and without meaning.

The invaders were called Amorites («Westerners») and for centuries they dominated the life of the Fertile Crescent, with city - states firmly established at such sites as Haran (from whence came Abraham, 11:31), Ugarit, Mari, and Babylon, which was ruled in the decades around 1700 by the renowned Hammurabi, Ugarit and Mari, among other ancient sites, have yielded profuse contemporary information of several kinds.

Although Westerners tend to think of animism as a form of belief that went out with Stone - Age man, it remains today one of the world's major religions, in terms of numbers, with more than 100 million followers in Africa, Asia, Polynesia, and South America.

On reluctant China, opened to Westerners by cannon, predominantly British, Roman Catholics and Protestants expended much effort, chiefly in the second half of the century and mostly after 1900.

One reason was the mounting industrialism, the technological inventions, and the associated intellectual revolution which gave Westerners the mastery of much of the world's natural resources.

Many Westerners have been drawn to Buddhism over the past two centuries, a considerable number converting to it.

We Asians know the Western Civilization is Christian though secular Westerners deny any Christian heritage in their history except making the Church a bad one.

By the year 1914 political independence from Western peoples was preserved only in the shrinking, badly weakened Turkish Empire; in Arabia, where encroachments had begun in Aden; in Ethiopia, with a precarious insecurity in its mountain fastnesses; in Persia, partly partitioned in Russian and British spheres of influence; in Afghanistan, a mountain buffer state between the British and Russian empires; in Thailand (Siam as it was then known), relatively safe because the British and the French, eyeing each other from Burma and Indo - China, would not permit either to annex it; in China, technically independent, but in fact occupied by Western powers who fixed the tariffs and whose citizens had extraterritorial status, and partially carved into spheres of influence; and in Japan, and from the 1850's into 1890's the independence of Japan had been compromised by the extraterritorial privileges of Westerners and the lack of full tariff autonomy.

The noun «religion» was imposed on these by Westerners, and it leads to efforts to identify the essence of «religion» and then to treat this as a norm by which to judge the religious traditions.

Westerners, however, seem to have lost interest.

Present secular Westerners are totally ridiculous not just in the science field but also regarding history.

For Westerners it is all about orthodoxy.

The Indian recognized, as few Westerners have done before modern times, how much of the psychic life is organized around centers largely independent of the seat of existence.

In this cultural sense the vast majority of Westerners have been more or less Christianized.

According to the Barrett investigators, «White Westerners cease to be practicing Christians at a rate of 7,600 per day.»

It is hard for Westerners to imagine a second country could nearly meet the levels of persecution seen in North Korea, but Afghanistan has reached that level this year.»

Moreover, most contemporary Westerners would include minds, bodies, atoms, bacteria, airplanes, and mountains in the class of things which they know to be real; but they may be uncertain about the status in reality of God, mathematical entities, and logical concepts such as «possibility.»

Part of the problem that many modern Westerners have with this view is that we rarely see or recognize how depraved and evil people can become.

«18 In the present context of globalization it is not only necessary to reject «the Western pretence of universalism,» writes Rajni Kothari, «but also for non-Western cultures to seek answers to their problems from within and, in the process, not only provide pluralism in techno - cultural system but, through such pluralism, help Westerners themselves to deal with the new crop of problems they now encounter.

Also, «creator god» is used in the limited Western concept (possibly because many Westerners can't perceive of a creator god that isn't also anthropomorphic)... instead of the Eastern idea of God / Universe / Nature in an eternal state of creation / destruction as eternal recombination of matter.

Not that the truly Christian spirit and the splendid achievements of many selfless workers for the cause of Christ in India and elsewhere could be denied by anyone; but many Westerners conceived of the meeting between Christian and Hindu as entirely a one way traffic, which consisted in condescendingly presenting for total acceptance a parcel in which the gospel was wrapped in sheets often not as clean as could be desired.

So then is it safe for us to as - sume you are currently packing your bags for YOUR trip to Egypt in order to support the people (cause evidently, Westerners can not) or are you just talking big behind a computer screen?

In a way Westerners living thousands of miles away could never know, he learned that Islam was more than a creed or a set of devotional practices.

Westerners and Muslims continue to harbor negative attitudes toward each other, but there's a glimmer of change in Western attitudes, a new survey found.

There is no doubt that the years in Baghdad gave him a depth of feeling without parallel among Westerners.

The difference, he says, is the suicide bomber's motive, which Westerners take to be the absurd one of doing violence specifically for one's faith.

Secular Westerners don't know that because they are illiterates on the Bible.

It is important, however, that Westerners recognize the presence of Arab Christians, who are a living link between ourselves and the earliest Christian churches.

Rather than looking at the uprising there as a loss because of new religious conflict, Westerners can encourage the Arabs to hold fast.

Westerners can denounce Muslim practices like the death penalty for apostasy (a very rare occurrence, by the way), but are we also willing to condemn violence perceived to be committed by «our» side — things like invasions, occupations and drone attacks that kill a disproportionate amount of civilians?

True — that's something we as westerners can possibly learn from an eastern worldview, that what can seem like paradoxes to us, other are content to sit with.

«By 1648,» he writes, «it had become all too clear to far too many Westerners that religion was no longer a social glue binding civilization together, but rather something corrosive and explosive which in the long run would have to be circumvented, perhaps even ignored.»

I will use «secular humanism» as a label for the post-Enlightenment, nontheistic faith of the large and growing number of Westerners who have abandoned Judaism or Christianity without adopting another species of organized religion.

Consider the way the predominantly marketing and consumer society in which most Westerners live has transformed virtually all traditional institutions (governments, corporations, universities) and created new or transformed institutions (the media, entertainment and leisure, professional sports, communications).

Westerners will view the Church - State revival in Russia with mixed feelings.

It is important that Westerners be aware of the presence of Arab Christians in Israel who are a living link between ourselves and the earliest Christian churches.

Though Westerners were first scandalized by their omnipresence in society, «their sweet chanting,» as one Western observer put it on a visit to Constantinople in the twelfth century, «the mingling of the voices, the heavier [male] with the light [eunuchs»], softened the hearts of the Franks.

He clearly had a monastic bent (Esseneism being very popular at the time) but he was very much a man of his time, as well as someone a lot more enlightened than almost all Westerners were then.

This is especially difficult in Islam for, although the Qur» an is the final authority and is constantly quoted in discussions with Muslims, Westerners have difficulty reading translated versions with sympathetic understanding.

Many Westerners, I think, misrepresent the subtlety of Advaita Vedanta and describe it as Monism or pantheism.