Most of the success stories so far from China have been clones of western ideas.
That is prompting a big, uncomfortable, shift in western ideas about it.
Many of these young Chinese started returning home in the 1920s and 1930s, imbued with Western ideas about modern design.
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Their fierce interpretation of Islam was not to his taste: Mr Masoud had been brought up with western ideas of personal freedom.
While many acquaintances in China are much more interested in Western ideas, he still thinks a lot about the country and its culture.
But Chinese students are no longer willing, as they were then, to listen unquestioningly to anyone bringing Western ideas to the classroom, he says.
It is fueled by an undercurrent of political Islam which is running rampant in the Muslim world and yet remains basically unopposed by western ideas.
There have been one or two nods towards Western ideas recently.
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America's long-term hope is that continued economic reform will raise Russian living standards, calm social strains, and root Russia more securely into a global economy where, willy-nilly, western ideas prevail.
Although Muslims in the Middle East have been talking about political reform since they were first exposed to Western ideas (and modern military might) in the 18th century, the discussion of individual liberty and equality has been more effective when Westerners have been intimately involved.
There is also an argument to be made that the ongoing military and political intervention by the West in its neighbour's affairs provides a greater danger to Pakistan's territorial integrity and internal peace and security than would be the case if Afghanistan's difficulties were resolved by interaction among its many indigenous groups, interaction less trammelled by Western ideas and interests.
He seems efficient, intelligent and, despite the nationalist flannel, more open to western economic ideas than any of his predecessors.
But this and other traditions are under pressure as a young generation more inclined towards Western culture and ideas grows up.
At the present time the US has the cart before the horse like all western nations and where the ideas phase at the fundamental level is not even part of the innovation chain.
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"It is a group of young extremists who adopt anarchic ideas, copying the Western terrorist movements calling themselves the Black Bloc, " Hani Salah-al-Din wrote in al-Yawm al-Sabi.
My job is to teach undergraduates to think critically and express themselves articulately while introducing them to some of the big ideas and seminal texts of the Western academic tradition.
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Calls to protect the family are met with the enthusiastic approval of the Orthodox Church and theories that Western Europe is infecting Russia with alien liberal ideas appeal to patriotic thinkers.
But, this is not so surprising as many Western firms also owe their historical origins to the ideas of others.
The copycat era of look-alike western sites in China will fade and more original ideas tailored to the local culture will flourish as the Chinese market develops and grows more sophisticated.
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There are all those millions of Chinese who claim to be governed by the ideas of Karl Marx, a Rhinelander Jew who got his education in the Western classics and who never went east of Berlin in his life.
Also, an initiative -- related initiative of putting entrepreneurs throughout the region together with universities but also with one another so that the ideas that are created in labs, be it in the United States but around the Western Hemisphere, can get to market more effectively -- again, underscoring the importance of competitiveness in the Western Hemisphere.
The regime has even borrowed some reform ideas term limits, local elections, public hearings, participatory budgeting from Western democracies.
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If one judge may look to the courts of Western Europe for expansion of liberal thoughts on human rights, why may another not look to decidedly less liberal ideas?
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