Now you, as Westerners, and I, as Westerners, would say well, that's superstition.

Generally speaking, Westerners don't eat fish raw.

Westerners own two thirds of its wealth.

And the grandmother had never let any Westerners ever see her.

Every time any Westerners came to the village, she hid the girl.

Some Westerners may think our houses are lacking in everything they consider essential.

Westerners, in general, prefer to avoid such topics unless the other person brings them up.

And, of course, as Westerners, we say, Well, it was an accident. That's not fair.

And we know that most of it is currently owned by people we might call Westerners

No one in the village would tell me where Hyun Sook was, because the grandmother had always hidden her from Westerners.

I made this film because I felt it's important for it to speak to the Westerners about our history as a country.

And Westerners, Europeans or Americans, who didn't know about this before faced this practice within some of the Muslim communities who migrated from North Africa.

On the other hand, the Westerners who look at Islamic culture and see some troubling aspects should not readily conclude that this is what Islam ordains.

Muslim scholars or Westerners think that actually the practice of dividing men and women physically came as a later development in Islam, as Muslims adopted some preexisting cultures and traditions of the Middle East.

This is true partly because non Westerners have begun to take pride in their own cultures and partly because those areas of the world where forks are not used have some of the highest birth rates.

Some believe that we are experiencing a new kind of conflict culture wars, such as those between Sunni and Shiite Muslims or tribal groups in Africa and Asia, or indeed Islamists and Westerners. However, the deeper reasons for some of these conflicts may well be more traditional.