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westernize::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | occidentalise, occidentalize, westernise |
| Type of | alter, change, modify |
| Derivation | western |
Examples of westernize
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Is it significant that as societies westernize, their rates of depression increase?
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
Some Asians view it as an attempt to westernize, while others see it as just another way to enhance his or her beauty.
From the ocregister.com
Would German workers accept the government's call to continue making sacrifices in order to help westernize eastern Germany?
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Nationalization, as a tool of modernization, was imparted on Africa by colonialists who wanted to westernize and modernize tribal Africa.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Intending to modernize the colony Raffles, a keen anthropologist and progressive administrator, attempted to westernize the character of the Dutch, Indo and Indigenous colonial elite alike.
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Some Japanese have worried that their country's politicians rely too much on haragei, and have suggested that Japanese should westernize themselves toward more rational, systematic debate.
From the time.com
It is also an adept portrait of a ruler, sympathetically assessing Catherine as a worthy successor to Peter the Great in the effort to modernize and westernize the vast Russian empire.
From the latimes.com
It is a shame that, when other countries are hit by disastrous situations, the good old United States of America is there to send millions of dollars to pacify them and to try to westernize them.
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- Occidentalize: make western in character; "The country was Westernized after it opened up"
- (westernization) assimilation of Western culture; the social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of Western civilization
- (Westernized) The Western world, also known as the West and the Occident (from Latin: occidens "sunset, west"; as contrasted with the Orient), is a term that can have multiple meanings depending on its context (e.g., the time period, the region or social situation). ...
- (Westernization) The process of adopting or imposing customs originating from North American and Western European countries.
