Where I work, in the Arab region, people are busy taking up Western innovations and changing them into things which are neither conventionally Western, nor are they traditionally Islamic.

A brave attempt to teach buddhism in the west.

Let's kick some ass!!!

The Atlantic.

Pears.

Swimming.

One answer lies deep in our cultural history.

Atlantic. Of course.

Atlantic islands

And so, what after that?

Western

Anyway.

Yes, pears.

On a transatlantic flight?

The same thing can be said for honor killings, which is a recurrent theme in the Western media and which is, of course, a horrible tradition.

And yet, despite the enormous disparities today, we have seen 200 years of remarkable progress.

I will start at 1858.

Atlantic Time New Brunswick

(Laughter)

like civilizations.

Muslims. Sunni as well as Shiites.

It appeals to pity. It appeals to something called charity.

Atlantic Standard Time Quebec Lower North Shore

Now, Josh Rushing actually ended up leaving the military and taking a job with Al Jazeera.

The optimism bias has been observed in many different countries in Western cultures, in non Western cultures, in females and males, in kids, in the elderly.

Susan Parks of Penn State has actually studied this.

There we are today.

Well, I leave that one up to you to judge.

The canal connects the Atlantic with the Pacific.

He likes Western culture.

Pacific Time west British Columbia

Mosaddeq revolution.

Look what happened by 2000 to the average call.

North Atlantic, 07 13 AM

Have I? Have I been corrupted by the West?

Twinkie... yellow on the outside, white on the inside.

This is the neighborhood where I grew up in East Lansing, Michigan.

Traditions.

Traditional?

The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic with the Pacific.

That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable.

(Laughter)

I once asked one of my colleagues at Harvard,

They crossed the Atlantic Ocean.

NOTlCE! ...