Ironically, says Rob Cunningham, Christian Aid's programme manager for South Africa, just as the word is taking off in Western society the values it embodies are in decline in the land of its origin.
Whereas Western democracy champions believe that all people are born with the same Western liberal democratic values, post-colonialists believe that non-Westerners are nothing more than victims of the West.
Your words were also very important, when you said that in the process of European integration you can see an opportunity to reenforce the world of Western values.
Arguably, the need for a special relationship with Great Britain rooted in shared Western values and a mutual commitment to the common defense is as great today as at anytime since World War II.
But I draw the line when an artist mounts a direct and nihilistic attack on Western Civilization that seeks to subvert the values that allow us all to survive and thrive.
Some countries may be unwilling or unable to participate in a coalition that demands a respect for the values and norms of western civilisation.
The rural western half, in particular, cherishes conservative values.
Arriving in America, she felt a natural affinity with people on the ideological centre-right who believe the Western world should be more trenchant in defending its own values and less inclined to blame itself.
Such are the social and cultural realities behind Russia's retreat from Western values.
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America seemed left behind, ossified, as other parts of the Western world, which generally share America's culture and values, revised their views and rules on social issues.
It is one of the first stable and thriving democracies in Latin America and has long been supportive of American and Western values.
Eisenhower was basically a Dewey Republican but being a Texas-born, Kansas-bred Westerner with a religious orientation and someone who could speak to Western values (and was pretty obviously comfortable in boots), he could appeal to the Taft wing.
Even more popular than the stars, he argues, is an emphasis on families and traditional values that increasingly chimes with audiences tired of western machine-gun violence and sexual mores.
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