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But the fact of the matter is, although people back in the day used to point at the Western countries and say, "I want that, I like that," there's now a new person in town in the form of a country, China.
It turned out that the capability to collect data, information and connections about basically any of us and all of us is exactly what we've been hearing throughout of the summer through revelations and leaks about Western intelligence agencies, mostly U.S. intelligence agencies, watching over the rest of the world.
Indeed, the person we call Fibonacci was actually named Leonardo of Pisa, and these numbers appear in his book "Liber Abaci," which taught the Western world the methods of arithmetic that we use today.
And we can go to the biggest swamp in the western Amazon.
One of the problems with this is that humans are taking apart the western Amazon as we speak.
So in order to put together a conservation plan for these unique, important corridors like the western Amazon and the Andes Amazon corridor, we have to start making geographically explicit plans now.
But they wrote a paper about this, and everybody in the western world began using electricity to convulse people who were either schizophrenic or severely depressed.
And he said, "But we've had a lot of trouble with Western mental health workers, especially the ones who came right after the genocide."
I was struck by the fact that depression is broadly perceived to be a modern, Western, middle-class thing, and I went to look at how it operated in a variety of other contexts, and one of the things I was most interested in was depression among the indigent.
In the Arab region, they brand these attempts as a Western conspiracy to undermine traditional Arab and Islamic values.
Conversely, he ran tests with tribes who had no prior exposure to Western culture.
We should always remember that our notion of individual freedom and its partner, creative freedom, is comparatively new in the history of Western ideas, and for that reason, it's often undervalued and can be very quickly undermined.
And as a consequence, across the Western world, the over-simplistic policies of the parties of protest and their appeal to a largely disillusioned, older demographic, along with the apathy and obsession with the trivial that typifies at least some of the young, taken together, these and other similarly contemporary aberrations are threatening to squeeze the life out of active, informed debate and engagement, and I stress active.
These three intertwined processes have completely annihilated all the traditional bearings of Western societies, with radical consequences for the individual.
And I blame it on the refrigerator, well, especially in Western cultures, because it makes it easier.
Smaller ones don't have the resources or the expertise, and so there's this market of Western companies who are happy to supply them with the tools and techniques for a price.
Beyond that, it's a part of our cultural identity, not just in America, but in Western societies and in democratic societies around the world.
MG: So I, one of the things I love to do when I travel is to go out to the rural areas and talk to the women, whether it's Bangladesh, India, lots of countries in Africa, and I go in as a Western woman without a name.
Western Australia has had a particular problem with shark attacks over the last three years, unfortunately and tragically culminating in five fatal shark attacks in a 10-month period during that time.
Western civilization has existed for a few seconds.
Now the other thing you'll notice about the top 10 there is, of course, they're all, apart from New Zealand, Western European nations.
For most Western young women of today, being called a feminist is an insult.
We don't have the right to be silent about them because it is easier or because Western policy is flawed as well, because 5:17 is still coming to too many Amel Zenounes in places like northern Nigeria, where jihadis still kill students.
At the start of February 2012 in western Kenya, the rains started, and they started early, and when rains start early, farmers are encouraged, because it usually means that the season is going to be good.
The Western domination is over, as of today.
And what he said was that this mindset, this framework discovered by Bentham, was the key means of societal control for modern, Western societies, which no longer need the overt weapons of tyranny — punishing or imprisoning or killing dissidents, or legally compelling loyalty to a particular party — because mass surveillance creates a prison in the mind that is a much more subtle though much more effective means of fostering compliance with social norms or with social orthodoxy, much more effective than brute force could ever be.
They had such good infrastructure that even at the time they had a fiber-optic telephone system, long before it had reached Western countries.
It's got a level of social progress the same as some Western European countries, with a much lower GDP.
Same for most Western European cities.
Who would you rather be treated by? (Applause) Now, make no mistake — Western medicine is the most successful system of healing ever devised, but there's plenty of holes in it.
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