Africans and Asians tend to consider not only missions but the local churches they have produced as centers and agents of Western culture and ideology if not of direct political propaganda.

A satire portraying a future and dystopian Western society with — based on contemporary trends — a culture of extreme youth rebellion and violence: it explores the violent nature of humans, human free will to choose between good or evil, and the desolation of free will as a solution to evil.

Her Latin origins and culture however led to creeping resentment from her Greek subjects ( who felt insulted enough by the late Manuel's Western tastes, let alone being ruled by his Western wife ), building up to an explosion of rioting that almost became a full civil war.

Contemporarily, the Western canon defines the best of Western culture.

There is a surviving tradition of Latin philology in Western culture connecting the Roman Empire with the Early Modern period.

George Schöpflin and others argue that Central Europe is defined by being " a part of Western Christianity ", while Samuel P. Huntington places the region firmly within Western culture.

Many of the population of the Western hemisphere could broadly be described as cultural Christians, due to the predominance of the Christian faith in Western culture, as well as widely celebrated religious holidays such as Easter and Christmas.

Western culture, throughout most of its history, has been nearly equivalent to Christian culture.

Though Western culture contained several polytheistic religions during its early years under the Greek and Roman empires, as the centralized Roman power waned, the dominance of the Catholic Church was the only consistent force in Europe.

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Many games, including card games, are fabricated by science fiction authors and screenwriters to distance a culture depicted in the story from present-day Western culture.

The anthropological concept of " culture " reflects in part a reaction against earlier Western discourses based on an opposition between " culture " and " nature ", according to which some human beings lived in a " state of nature ".

Sociocultural anthropologists have increasingly turned their investigative eye on to " Western " culture.

Western scholarship has tended to focus on cities in Europe and Mesopotamia, but emerging archeological evidence indicates that urbanization occurred south of the Sahara well before the influence of Arab urban culture.

In Western culture the codex gradually replaced the scroll.

In Confucianism, the term " li " (), sometimes translated into English as rituals, customs, rites, etiquette, or morals, refers to any of the secular social functions of daily life, akin to the Western term for culture.

In this period also started the penetration of Western culture, but most Chinese thought that the Westerners were maybe more advanced in technology and warfare, but that China had primacy in moral and intellectual fields.

** Western canon, the books, music, and art that have been the most influential in shaping Western culture

Historically, the Western tradition identifies the general custom of praying for the dead dating as far back as 2 Maccabees 12: 42-46.

It may come from a custom in the late Roman / early Christian era, wherein metal boxes placed outside churches were used to collect special offerings tied to the Feast of Saint Stephen, which in the Western Church falls on the same day as Boxing Day.

With some refinements ( and the rare exception of the Kingma system and other custom adapted fingering systems ), Western concert flutes typically conform to Boehm's design, known as the Boehm system.

A family name ( in Western contexts often referred to as a surname or last name ) is typically a part of a person's name which has been passed, according to law or custom, from one or both parents to their children.

Due to the social custom that men and women should not be near to one another, the women of China were reluctant to be treated by male doctors of Western Medicine.

The New York Times review of the original 1976 production said " The lyrics are totally Western and — as is the custom with Mr. Sondheim — devilish, wittily and delightfully clever.

A number of cultures have adopted the traditional Western custom of the white wedding, in which a bride wears a white wedding dress and veil.

While their legal names are left unmodified, it is common for them to be addressed in a similar fashion to Western custom as ' Mrs. ( husband's family name )'.

Because Muslim authorities refused to permit Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, the custom developed of praying near the Western Wall, since it was the site nearest to the Foundation Stone, or on the Mount of Olives facing the site of the Temple.

In particular, the custom of dressing up in costumes and going " guising " or trick-or-treating at Halloween developed from Christian customs created in Western Europe around the 15th century.

The city is also home to the International World Jet Ski Final Races, multiple professional fishing tournaments, custom boat regattas, the Western Winter Blast pyrotechnics convention, Havasu 95 Speedway, the Chilln-n-Swilln Beer Festival annual charity event, the Havasu Triathlon, the Havasu Half Marathon and the Havasu Island Hot Air Balloon Fest & Fair.

In the Sierra Tarahumara of North Western Mexico, a custom exists called kórima.

Due to the social custom that men and women should not be near to one another, the women of China were reluctant to be treated by male doctors of Western Medicine.

The Japanese have a custom of sending to their friends and relatives, similar to the Western custom of sending Christmas cards.

Traditionally, Eastern churches celebrated Epiphany ( or Theophany ) in conjunction with Christ's baptism by John the Baptist and celebrated it on January 19 ; however, many have begun to adopt the Western custom of celebrating it on January 6, the twelfth day of Christmas.

March 19 was dedicated to Saint Joseph in several Western calendars by the tenth century, and this custom was established in Rome by 1479.

It draws a parallel between the custom of the Easter egg hunt observed in many Western nations and the last Russian imperial family's tradition of giving elaborately jeweled egg-shaped creations by Carl Fabergé which contained hidden surprises.

A similar hug, usually accompanied by a kiss on the cheek, is also becoming a custom among Western women at meeting or parting.

It emulated its predecessors by utilizing a custom chip called the Mega II and used the new Western Design Center 65C816 16-bit microprocessor running at, which was faster than the 8-bit NMOS 6502 and CMOS 65C02 processors used in earlier Apple II models.

He graduated from Western University of Pennsylvania in 1846, later studying the law on his own as was the custom of the day.

Western names do not have an equivalent custom.

This is in contrast to the custom in Elizabethan England, when decorations were left up until Candlemas ; this is still done in some other Western European countries such as Germany.

This custom stresses the unity of the universal Catholic Church, formed by both the Eastern and the Western ( Latin Rite ) Churches in full communion.