Western world and Westerner
Western world
The Western world, also known as the West and the Occident (from Latin: occidens "sunset, West"; as contrasted with the Orient), is a term referring to different nations depending on the context. There is no agreed upon definition about what all these nations have in common apart from having a significant population of European descent.
Although the term originally had a literal geographic meaning, contrasting Europe with the linked cultures of civilizations of the Near East (Muslim world), South Asia and remote Far East (Sinosphere), today it has little geographic relevance. Nations generally accepted to be part of the Western world occupy both hemispheres created by the arbitrary division of the earth at Greenwich or strongly related to Europe.
The concept of the Western part of the earth has its roots in Greco-Roman civilization in Europe, with the advent of Christianity. In the modern era, Western culture has been heavily influenced by the traditions of Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, Age of Enlightenment, and shaped by the expansive colonialism of the 16th-20th centuries. Its political usage was temporarily informed by a mutual antagonism with the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War in the mid-to-late 20th Century (1945–1991).
In the contemporary cultural meaning, the Western world includes many countries of Europe as well as many countries of European colonial origin in the Americas and Oceania, such as the United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Brazil, etc.
Western Proverb
Advice
¶ A rose too often smelled loses its fragrance.
¶ An onion will not produce a rose.
¶ Extremes meet.
Attitude
¶ From the same flower the bee extracts honey and the wasp gall.
¶ Soft and fair goes far.
Beauty
¶ A rose is sweeter in the bud than full blown.
¶ Beauty draws more than oxen.
¶ Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
¶ Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume.
¶ Casting pearls before swine.
Care
¶ Care killed the cat.
Confidence
¶ Good wine needs no bush.
Cooperation
¶ It takes two to tango.
Drink
¶ Bacchus kills more than Mars.
Endeavor
¶ He that will thrive, must rise at five.
¶ God helps the early riser.
Flower
¶ Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.
Friend
¶ A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.
¶ A life wthout a friend is a life without a sun.
¶ It is his friends that make or mar a man.
Gentleman
¶ Manners and money make a gentleman.
God
¶ God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
Happiness
¶ Every rose has its thorn.
Honesty
¶ Honesty is the best policy.
Imitation
¶ Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Journey
¶ A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Kindness
¶ Kindness is worth more than beauty.
Money
¶ Every man has his price.
¶ Money can't buy happiness.
¶ Money is like an eel in the hand.
¶ Money makes money.
¶ Money ruins many.
¶ No work, no money.
¶ To repay borrowed money is the best way to use money.
Parting
¶ Rats desert sinking ship.
Sagacity
¶ It is not every flower that smells sweet.
Self-care
¶ Likeness causes liking.
¶ No shame, no honor.
Spring
¶ April Showers bring May flowers.
Time
¶ The tree is known by its fruit.
¶ Time is money.
Wisdom
¶ Every cloud has a silver lining.
¶ If you would enjoy the fruit, pluck not the flower.
¶ Painted flowers have no scent.
¶ There is no new thing under the sun.
