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Second, an international diplomatic effort that was hampered from the beginning by Western support for Kosovo's independence.
In addition, the military issued orders forbidding western Indians from leaving reservations.
All western Indians at that point in time were now prisoners of war.
And when it gets decoupled, we might find that democracy, the multitude of voices, actually impedes capitalism because a state that does not have any pretense of limited government can very quickly mandate a regulatory framework for drones, for electric cars, for self-driving cars, for any new innovation where they feel that they can leapfrog Western societies.
Now to start with, I should say that we are eating way too much meat in the Western world.
In the process of preparing this, we looked at how some other cultures around the world deal with this period of time, because here in the Western world, less than 50 percent of us live near our family members, which I think is part of why this is such a tough period.
And we should bear in mind here that these projections were drawn up before the Western financial crisis.
And the problem we have in the West at the moment, by and large, is that the conventional approach is that we understand it really in Western terms, using Western ideas.
In other words, China, unlike the Western states and most countries in the world, is shaped by its sense of civilization, its existence as a civilization-state, rather than as a nation-state.
The problem with this proposition is that the Chinese state enjoys more legitimacy and more authority amongst the Chinese than is true with any Western state.
So you can see that the way in which power has been constructed in China is very different from our experience in Western history.
And yet we still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it through Western eyes, using Western concepts.
Is this business about appearance and preoccupation with it a Western phenomenon?
So it's not simply a Western phenomenon.
When Western scientists would join Mau on the canoe and watch him go into the hull, it appeared that an old man was going to rest.
And to do that, they need a Western education.
Because, of course, the best jobs go to people out of the Western Universities, that I put on earlier.
The exterior of the structure was a collage of Africa and Africans as portrayed in the Western media and literature.
But the images captured by Western media overwhelmingly depict Africans as basically primitive at best, or barely distinguishable from the African animals.
In studies conducted in Papua New Guinea, Paul Ekman, the world's most renowned researcher on facial expressions, found that even members of the Fore tribe, who were completely disconnected from Western culture, and also known for their unusual cannibalism rituals, (Laughter) attributed smiles to descriptions of situations the same way you and I would.
By the way, we had half the budget of the other Western nations.
From the fact that they are only serving one audience, mainly the Western culture.
But also, I worry about the West, because often in this country, in this Western world that we have, culture risks being a form of entertainment.
And I have been fortunate enough to find things like the first eggs in the Western hemisphere and the first baby dinosaurs in nests, the first dinosaur embryos and massive accumulations of bones.
Next challenge, the Biennial of the Americas in Denver asked, could I represent the 35 nations of the Western hemisphere and their interconnectedness in a sculpture?
That word is in my language, Maragoli, spoken in western Kenya, and now you speak my language.
I grew up in a farming community in western Kenya.
And one activist actually found a contract from a Western company for the sale of surveillance technology to the Egyptian security forces.
And that's done in part with the help from Western technology.
Statistically, they are educated, on average, above the education levels of Western society.
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