With The Seven Samurai and other feudal epics, Kurosawa was accused of peddling the samurai tradition as exotica for Westerners.
He has a little sideline in providing building services for westerners in Kiev, most of whom speak neither Ukrainian nor Russian.
The alerts come in the wake of three near simultaneous strikes on housing compounds for Westerners in Saudi Arabia which killed 25 people.
Inspired by his relationship with Indian royalty--the Parisian jeweler's clients included various maharajahs starting in 1911--Cartier created a series of Mughal-influenced pieces for Westerners.
Conversely, if they are found guilty but pardoned there will be accusations of double standards: one rule for westerners and another for workers from the sub-continent and Africa.
Chicken Street, the favorite place for Westerners in search of good deals on rugs and gemstones, has also undergone somewhat of a makeover, with new jewelry shops inside gleaming glass and chrome storefronts.
The localization of these understandings in turn opens up a whole new set of options for Westerners and particularly for Israelis in seeking ways to contend with the region's pathologies that involve policies less sweeping than grand, yet futile designs of peace making, or fundamental restructuring of the social compacts of Arab societies.
Asian leaders often criticize Westerners for not knowing enough about Asia, but how well does the region know itself -- culturally speaking?
The Iraqi government said Tuesday it would review the status of private security companies as anger over the alleged involvement of Blackwater USA in a fatal shooting of civilians threatened to spread to other firms providing protection for dignitaries and Westerners on Iraq's chaotic streets.
"Although there is no specific information pointing to specific, imminent threats against U.S. citizens, the potential for violence and kidnappings targeting Westerners in Benghazi is significant, " the U.S. State Department said in a warning for American citizens Thursday.
For example, they think middle class Westerners all own homes, drive cars, and travel for vacations.
Organisations are also responding to the emergence of a reverse brain drain that is increasingly forcing educated Westerners to look for skilled work in Asia, or with Asian companies in their home countries.
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"Although there is no specific information pointing to specific, imminent threats against U.S. citizens, the potential for violence and kidnappings targeting Westerners in Benghazi is significant, " the State Department said following the British warning on Thursday.
For all the chatter about diet and exercise, there is a simple explanation for why Americans and other westerners are gaining weight: Food and calories are extremely cheap--not just at McDonald's but in the grocery store, as well.
Throughout West Africa and the Sahel, Westerners have become targets for both militant groups and criminal gangs, which are sometimes indistinguishable.
Nor should Westerners overdo the despair, for the emergence of new great powers will benefit them, too.
Yet governments in the region seem to take Gulf tourists for granted, concentrating instead on attracting fickle westerners.
"French security officials have publicly said for some time that they are especially concerned that Westerners could come back from North Africa or the Sahel to launch attacks, " Lebovich told CNN.
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As well as the eight Westerners, 16 Afghan aid workers working for the same organization -- Shelter Now International, based in Germany -- have also been arrested and charged with the same crime.
But before Westerners begin pointing fingers at Asian countries for contributing to greenhouse gases and other anti-sustainability actions, it should be understood that while they may be growing in their contributions to deleterious effects on the earth, they still lag far behind western nations in terms of per capita production of Carbon Dioxide, the greenhouse gas identified as the greatest contributor to climate change.
As explained by Fernando Reinares, an international terrorism analyst at Madrid's Elcano Institute, "The GSPC has become more committed to targeting Westerners, including civilians, and to mobilizing recruits for Iraq, " and its operatives pose a danger to southern Europe in addition to northwest Africa.
When Westerners puzzle over why it's so hard for Israel to find moderate interlocutors among the Palestinians -- historically among the best educated, most entrepreneurial, and liberal of Arab societies -- a sad but simple part of the answer is that a great number of the Palestinian elites who might have filled that role were either killed or persuaded to leave long ago.
But is it too raw to be repurposed for good, especially with all the baggage of aiming this at Westerners?
EU. For the Americans, still co-sponsoring Europe's new westerners in military terms, have made it clear that the Balkans must be rebuilt mainly by Europeans.
What Westerners do not quite grasp, however, is that for Arafat the end of Oslo means not just statehood but a release from the very core of Oslo, the pledge of peace.
But does he feel his skills are being exploited by Westerners, who would normally expect to pay a lot more for one-to-one tuition?
For months, Egypt's council of ruling generals has expressed suspicion of Westerners in Egypt.
He introduced Westerners to Middle Easterners who were neither hostile nor exotic, but hoped for the same things and treasured the same values as they did.
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