Word: westernizes
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...speaking with youths, church members, hospital workers in urban China, peasants, people in hospitals in rural Peru—and found that in both bustling cities and pastoral villages, people were much more likely to use herbal remedies for relatively minor issues, like fevers and colds, but embraced Western medicine for more significant problems, like diabetes and arthritis...
Especially in China, Wang said, traditional medicine is believed to pose potential long-term cures, whereas Western medicine is used to cure sudden symptoms and complex medical issues in need of immediate attention, like surgery...
...have assumptions, you know people use traditional medicine, but you don’t know why,” Wang said. “Being there lets you escape from the Western, imperialistic mindset that our medicines are the best,” he said...
...Self-Employed Women’s Association and are living proof that economic development and women’s empowerment go hand in hand. We were a group of Harvard affiliates in a group called the Alba Collective that hopes to sell products made by SEWA members in western markets. As we sat on the floor of a two-room house, the women told us their stories...
...Facilitation Center, employs women to do fine embroidery work on clothing and upholstery products, which are then sold to high-paying markets and the profits are channeled back to the women. The Alba Collective teamed up with this fair-trade endeavor and is now trying to attract high-end, western designers to buy SEWA products. The profits would go directly back to the women artisans...