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occidental
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occidental [‚äk·sə′dent·əl]
(lapidary)
Property of a gemstone which is of an inferior quality (grade, luster, or value) or is an inferior variety.
Property of a substitute gemstone that is misrepresented as being the genuine gem.
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536 (2001) (describing human rights law as culturally relativist); see also Martin Chanock, "Culture" and Human Rights: Orientalising, Occidentalising and Authenticity, in BEYOND RIGHTS TALK AND CULTURE TALK: COMPARATIVE ESSAYS ON THE POLITICS OF RIGHTS AND CULTURE 15, 15 (Mahmood Mamdani ed.
Piercing the veil by Sunder, Madhavi / Yale Law Journal
; Martin Chanock, `Culture' and Human Rights: Orientalising, Occidentalising and Authenticity, in BEYOND RIGHTS TALK AND CULTURE TALK: COMPARATIVE ESSAYS ON THE POLITICS OF RIGHTS AND CULTURE 21 (Mahmood Mamdani ed.
Cultural dissent by Sunder, Madhavi / Stanford Law Review
 
 
 
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