Such are the social and cultural realities behind Russia's retreat from Western values.
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It is one of the first stable and thriving democracies in Latin America and has long been supportive of American and Western values.
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.
Where governments reflect the preferences and beliefs of most citizens, democratically or otherwise, and where those preferences call for cultural distinctness and non-western values, economic integration does not militate against diversity, least of all against religious diversity.
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.
Western and Mideastern values collide in a book commentator Andrei Codrescu picked up recently.
It's fashionable to say that we should pay more attention to non- Western civilizations and values.
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.
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.
Mr. Murphy said his salesrooms in New York and London also saw a 31% uptick in registered Asian bidders this season a sign that some Asian collectors may be migrating to Western art categories while values for Asian art recalibrate.
In a kind of "Dear Abby" column, Ozdemir offered advice to young women, arguing Islam's compatibility with Western norms and advocating such values even when more religious Muslims rejected them.
Some countries may be unwilling or unable to participate in a coalition that demands a respect for the values and norms of western civilisation.
These values are not uniquely Western, nor are they uniquely American.
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.
The rural western half, in particular, cherishes conservative values.
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.
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.
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.
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