Yiddish is seen as a largely Western European phenomenon.

The wildfires raging in Colorado and Arizona are not just a Western phenomenon.

These trends seem to be a predominantly Western phenomenon.

Women working 50 hr weeks outside the home and outsourcing childcare is a modern Western phenomenon.

However, many others have established colonial rules, so it is not uniquely a Western phenomenon.

Exploration, in the sense of sheer restlessness to find out what lies over the horizon, is a Western phenomenon.

Metaphysical naturalism is most notably a Western phenomenon, but an equivalent idea has long existed in the East.

Though brush fires are dismissed by some observers as a Western phenomenon, climatological evidence points to a different and far more disturbing conclusion.

Anti-fat bias is not a strictly Western cultural phenomenon.

The university itself, a specially sheltered place for such self-examination, is a Western phenomenon only partially assimilated in other cultures.