In the Western hemisphere and in English-speaking countries, a kiosk is also a booth with an open window on one side.

Potato chips are a predominant part of the snack food market in English-speaking countries and numerous other Western nations.

One of the notable attempts at compiling an authoritative canon in the English-speaking world was the Great Books of the Western World program.

International schools generally follow an English-speaking, Western curriculum and are aimed at expatriate communities.

Popular proponents of the Western Classical form include the St Augustine Chamber Orchestra / Trinidad and Tobago Youth Philharmonic ( the largest symphony orchestra and largest youth orchestra in the English-speaking Caribbean ), Marionettes Chorale, Lydian Singers and UWI Festival Arts Chorale ; the National Sinfonia and the National Steel Symphony Orchestra ; and the Classical Music Development Foundation, among others.

Arrival of the 1990s ushered in the phenomenon of an extensive English-speaking Muslim population well-settled in Western Europe and North America.

The romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries.

" At the time, statements such as this were sufficiently controversial that Western publishers felt compelled to include disclaimers in versions of his books that were translated for distribution to English-speaking countries.

The main violent riots took place in the Western, English-speaking part of the country starting with a " strike " initiated by taxi drivers in Douala, allegedly causing more than 200 casualties in the end.

We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life.

The relative obscurity of Korean culture in the Western world has caused the word " manhwa " to remain somewhat unknown in the English-speaking world.

Several countries in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia made spousal rape illegal before 1970, but other countries in Western Europe and the English-speaking Western World outlawed it much later, mostly in the 1980s and 1990s.

The Washington Post favorably contrasted Joseph Kabila — Western educated and English-speaking — with his father.

It was Western media coverage of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc immolating himself in protest of the Vietnamese Ngo Dinh Diem regime in 1963 that introduced the word " self-immolation " to a wide English-speaking audience and gave it a strong association with fire.

" He argues that most English-speaking Canadians " continued to believe that Canada was, and should continue to be, a ' British ' nation and that it should cooperate with the other members of the British family in the British Commonwealth of Nations .” Nevertheless, there are two possible mechanisms whereby World War I may have intensified Canadian nationalism: 1 ) Pride in Canada ’ s accomplishments on the battlefield demonstrably promoted Canadian patriotism, and 2 ) the war distanced Canada from Britain in that Canadians reacted to the sheer slaughter on the Western Front by adopting an increasingly anti-British attitude.

Organized opposition to gay and lesbian rights began in the 1970s ,, primarily amongst Christian groups, following the liberalization of attitudes and laws relating to homosexuality in many English-speaking countries and Western Europe.

It began as a mostly ethnic Scottish denomination, but after some years it grew somewhat more and more ethnically diverse, although universally English-speaking, and was geographically centered in Western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, areas of heavy Scottish and Scotch-Irish settlement on the American frontier.

in one of two main ways: a ) stereotyped and sometimes dehumanizing views on the Western world, including Europe and the English-speaking world ; and b ), ideologies or visions of the West developed in either the West or non-West.

In Britain, where pornography is more restricted than it is in many other English-speaking or Western Europe countries, sexual media is easily smeared for an audience that is seldom given an opportunity to see what really is sold under the name of " pornography ".

While it is hazardous to project the trend of history, it seems clear that a genuine community is painfully emerging in the Western world, particularly among the countries of Western Europe.

Shipments of arms from Western countries could similarly be seized as contraband.

The Communist countries allocated more than $1,000,000,000 in economic aid alone last year, according to Western estimates.

It is Field Marshal Montgomery's belief that in most Western countries about 60 per cent of the people do not really care about democracy or Christianity ; ;

But these Western countries do care about themselves.

A common criticism has been that many social science scholars ( such as economists, sociologists, and psychologists ) in Western countries focus disproportionately on Western subjects, while anthropology focuses disproportionately on the " other "; this has changed over the last part of the twentieth century as anthropologists increasingly, also study Western subjects, particularly variation across class, region, or ethnicity within Western societies, and other social scientists increasingly take a global view of their fields.

Anthropology as it emerged amongst the Western colonial powers ( mentioned above ) has generally taken a different path than that in the countries of southern and central Europe ( Italy, Greece, and the successors to the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires ).

In Western countries, a bead frame similar to the Russian abacus but with straight wires and a vertical frame has been common ( see image ).

Since then, it has focused on improving relationships with Western countries, cultivating links with other Portuguese-speaking countries, and asserting its own national interests in Central Africa through military and diplomatic intervention.

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Some, like Hernando De Soto, argue that much of the poverty in the Third World countries is caused by the lack of Western systems of laws and well-defined and universally recognized property rights.

His non-violent resistance movement satyagraha had an immense impact on India, impressed public opinion in Western countries and influenced the leaders of various civil and political rights movements such as Martin Luther King, Jr.

In Western countries, soy milk options are widely available for those who avoid dairy products.

In a few Western countries female toplessness at a beach is acceptable, although it may not be acceptable in the town center.

Initially, Stalin directed systems in the Eastern Bloc countries that rejected Western institutional characteristics of market economies, democratic governance ( dubbed " bourgeois democracy " in Soviet parlance ) and the rule of law subduing discretional intervention by the state.

The United Kingdom and the United States were concerned that electoral victories by communist parties in any of these countries could lead to sweeping economic and political change in Western Europe.

Through the support of the Western bloc ( most Western countries continued to recognize the ROC as the sole legitimate government of China ), the Republic of China on Taiwan retained China's seat in the United Nations until 1971.

This model is prominent in Western and Northern European countries, albeit in slightly different configurations.

Today constitutional monarchies are mostly associated with Western European countries such as the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Luxembourg, Monaco, Liechtenstein, and Sweden.

The term multiculturalism is most often used in reference to Western nation-states, which had seemingly achieved a de facto single national identity during the 18th and / or 19th centuries.

Historically, support for modern multiculturalism stems from the changes in Western societies after World War II, in what Susanne Wessendorf calls the " human rights revolution ", in which the horrors of institutionalized racism and ethnic cleansing became almost impossible to ignore in the wake of the Holocaust ; with the collapse of the European colonial system, as colonized nations in Africa and Asia successfully fought for their independence and pointed out the racist underpinnings of the colonial system ; and, in the United States in particular, with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, which criticized ideals of assimilation that often led to prejudices against those who did not act according to Anglo-American standards and which led to the development of academic ethnic studies programs as a way to counteract the neglect of contributions by racial minorities in classrooms.

As this history shows, multiculturalism in Western countries was seen as a useful set of strategies to combat racism, to protect minority communities of all types, and to undo policies that had prevented minorities from having full access to the opportunities for freedom and equality promised by the liberalism that has been the hallmark of Western societies since the Age of Enlightenment.

As elsewhere in Western Europe, the rapid growth of the Muslim community in Germany has led to social tensions and political controversy, partly connected to Islamic extremism, and partly more generally due to the difficulties of multiculturalism and fears of Überfremdung.

In 2010, Steyn was presented the Sappho Award from the International Free Press Society in Copenhagen, Denmark for what was described as both " his ample contributions as a cultural critic " and " his success in influencing the debate on Islam, the disastrous ideology of multiculturalism and the crisis of the Western civilization.

Its policies were generally favourable towards Māori, such as its proposal to give customary Māori law equal status to modern Western law, but the party portrayed this as multiculturalism rather than mere Māori advocacy.

The multiple view points allow for Smith to approach the idea of multiculturalism and the racial undercurrents of Western society from the viewpoints of many different characters.

The policies of the Vlaams Belang focus mainly on the issues of Flemish independence, opposition to multiculturalism, and defence of traditional Western values.

The remit of multiculturalism is to allow distinct cultures to reside in Western societies, or separate societies in general, and one possible consequence is that certain religious or traditional practices may negate Western feminist ideals.

Although music education in many nations has traditionally emphasized Western classical music, in recent decades music educators tend to incorporate application and history of non-western music to give a well-rounded musical experience and teach multiculturalism and international understanding.

DNSI examines discrimination and its social impact not just in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, but also in other historical and international contexts that implicate the tension between equality and concerns for national security, such as the backlash against Muslims after the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the broader debate regarding assimilation and multiculturalism that is taking place in several Western societies ( see, United Kingdom debate over veils ).