Sentences with phrase «westernization of»

On the other hand, access to electronic gadgets and media amplifies the westernization of youth in India, which fosters cross-sex socialization and liberal romantic and sexual attitudes (L'Engle, Brown, & Kenneavy, 2006).

Studying the initial Westernization of the Ottoman Empire through to the early Republican period, Repertoire reveals the reverberations of historic processes in today's artistic productions and provides the historical backdrop to the Modern and contemporary artworks in the exhibition — from the musical tones of the abstract art of the 1950s to the popularized content of the 1980s.

It also describes Wang Guangyi, who is known as a «political pop artist,» as exemplified by Coca - Cola (1990 - 1993), part of The Great Criticism Series that responds to the westernization of communist China.

There's the matter of legal ethics, whereby a sleepwalker who killed his father - in - law was acquitted of wrongdoing; the irony of sleeping pills whose effectiveness stems from their inducing short - term amnesia, thus helping you forget how much you actually tossed and turned all night; or the inventor of a highly successful treatment for sleep apnea, now patiently waiting for the Westernization of China to manifest itself in a king's ransom of obesity - related sleep disorders.

Q: Is the forming of the Los Angeles studio reflected in the Westernization of this installment of the franchise?

And riding on the heels of the Westernization of yoga is meditation.

That's changing nowadays, though, with the Westernization of their food.

The Westernization of diets, with an increase in availability of high calorie foods certainly contributes to the epidemic of metabolic syndrome.

Our study suggests that westernization of the diet induces changes in biomarkers of colon cancer risk in the colonic mucosa within two weeks.

These findings also raise serious concerns that the progressive westernization of African communities may lead to the emergence of colon cancer as a major health issue.»

Incidence and prevalence are increasing rapidly in developing countries, attributed largely to the swift modernization and westernization of society.

... In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the European Westernization of Egypt produced intellectual titans of liberal secularism: Taha Hussein, Muhammad Hussein Haykal, Abbas Mahmud al - Aqqad, and more....

Not exact matches

The «globalization» — or rather, the American Westernization — of Egypt that has been gaining speed since the 1960s has no literary or political giants.

For obvious reasons, though, they have seldom really rejected, and have often eagerly sought, those aspects of westernization identified with material prosperity.

Even though Africa has trained enough people to the same academic levels as in Canada, USA and Australia it can not democratize or develop unless it first cures the residual effects of the partial westernization, cognitive dissonance, and governance - deficiency syndrome created by missionary Christianity.

The modernization all Eastern nations want is inescapably also Westernization, and Westernization involves, to some degree, the emergence of the responsible «I.»

Studies conducted during the 1950s and early 1960s often took an optimistic view of economic development and, in keeping with this outlook, showed how traditional religions were adapting to westernization and saw value in the accompanying cultural shifts toward rationalization and individual piety.

They welcome the new technology but often regard the associated cultural challenges not as aspects of globalization but as westernization — and this they wish to reject.

Therefore, it is not so much democracy, but the modernization and westernization that are a threat to Muslims of Wahhabiyah orientation and calls for opposition including jihad to protect the integrity of their vision of Islam.

Moreover, the common perception of the «westernization» of Indian Christians has been a major factor in making baptism a divisive factor in Indian society, especially from the late 15th and early 16th centuries onwards.

To reject unwarranted attempts as «Westernization» or, for that matter, any imposition of «foreign» notions is one thing; however, the only alternative to such attempts is not necessarily the somewhat relativistic idea of sharing.

By his act the dangers of Westernization were called to the attention of Japanese youth who habitually sense, recognize, and worship the transcendent in constantly new forms of appearances.

Sarna is especially incisive when he discusses Jewish indebtedness and identification with American values, together with his anxiety about Jewish security and survival in North America, pride in the existence and achievements of the state of Israel, and satisfaction at its economic Westernization.

In contrast to the increased prevalence of HTN, T2D, and obesity observed with increasing westernization, the distribution of serum lipid parameters is remarkably uniform across African ancestry populations.

Professor Stephen O'Keefe at the University of Pittsburgh, who directed the study, said: «Studies on Japanese migrants to Hawaii have shown that it takes one generation of westernization to change their low incidence of colon cancer to the high rates observed in native Hawaiians.

The image Miisi had constructed in Britain of the noble African rooted in his cultural values shunning westernization was a myth.

It also didn't help that it's internal development team was scattered to the four winds of Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy, culminating with SE handing the franchise over to Double Helix back when «westernization» was the word on every developers list to boost Japanese presence in the world market circa mid-2000s.

The list is by no means exhaustive but tries to represent a cross-section of China's contemporary art scene, which has been greatly influenced by the recent period of rapid Westernization and its effect on traditional Chinese values.

Fantastic images of warriors and staged historical battles are invaded by irrepressible color and pop - images from electronic media in the former Core Fellow's paintings, sculpture, digital collage, video, and installations, which express his «concern with romanticized and sterilized representations that occur with the westernization, commercialization, and imposition of entertainment value upon history.»

Inspired by the 19th century Arts and Crafts movement in Europe, the Mingei movement was established in 1926 during a period of rapid growth in Japan that included military imperialism, nationalism, westernization and urbanization.

Her main interests are questions of ethnicity, modernization, and Westernization in India and their impact on caste, language, and religion.

In response to the country's rapid Westernization, Nihonga emerged as the recognized academic school of painting connected to the rich traditions of Japanese art.

The difference between your view and what I propose some could reasonably believe is that the West is not necessarily progress, and what looks like Westernization may end up far ahead instead, including the possibility of more efficient, less energy intensive, and in other ways incommensurable.

Enforced Westernization and assimilation — the policy of missionaries and government administrators until the late 20th century — destroyed many Indigenous cultural practices.

Pakistani society differs from Western society in terms of socio - cultural features and social structure despite of rapid westernization (Kagitcibasi, 1990).