In modern western societies, however, the focus on individuality and independence means that people are less concerned about conforming to (遵守) the dictates of family and culture.

W : We mainly deal with large volume buyers from western countries and our products have been well received.

Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a staple food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers.Based on that timing, they indicate barley may have 34 arrived in the re

Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a?staple food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers.

The Chinese doctor took my pulse and asked to see my tongue, both of which were new experiences to me because they are both non-existent in Western medicine.

Landfill sites on the Iberian Peninsula have long attracted local white storks, but all of the Spanish birds tagged in the study flew across the Sahara Desert to the western Sahel.

in Western Europe, reports economist Robert Stein in the journal National Affairs.

In it the majority of students will have conformed to the standard model of the time: male, middle class and Western.

In still-fertile America it currently accounts for about 40% of total population growth, and in fast-ageing western Europe for about 90%.

But over the next few decades labour forces in rich countries are set to shrink so much that inflows of immigrants would have to increase enormously to compensate: to at least twice their current size in western Europe's most youthful countries, and three times in the older ones

By 2025 at the latest, about half the voters in America and most of those in western European countries will be over 50—and older people turn out to vote in much greater number than younger ones.

We can tear apart the great grass cover of the western plains and pour toxic chemicals into the soil until the soil is dead and blows away in the wind.

And in fact our admiration for the comically gifted is relatively new and not very well-founded, says Rod Martin's a psychologist at the University of Western Ontario.

Claer Barrett, the editor of financial times Money, says the Western world is headed toward a world without physical currency.

Dating from as far back as the 12th century, they are claimed to be the rarest historic buildings in western Europe.

Eat Grub is Britain's first new food company that breaks western food boundaries by introducing edible insects as a new source of food.

However, despite 2 billion people worldwide already supplementing their diet with insects, consumer disgust remains a large barrier in many western countries.

I quickly passed over state schools and southern schools, believing their curriculums to be automatically inferior to northeastern or western counterparts.

She stayed in the Northwest, although the test could not be more specific than somewhere between eastern Oregon and western Wyoming.

The strength of that effect is stronger in western cultures than in East Asian cultures.