westernization

• westernisation (non-Oxford British English)

From western + -ization.

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westernization (countable and uncountable, plural westernizations)

1. The process of assimilation, by a society, of the customs and practices of western culture.
   • 1964, The journal of Asian studies, volume 24, page 309:

     I would argue that Westernization as a cultural attribute was less important than the fact that these men had skills disposing them to what rule-based government and^[sic] fear 'demagocracy' )

   • 2005, Randall Elam Mayes, The Cybernetics of Kenyan Running: Hurry, Hurry Has No Blessing, page 92:

     According to anthropology professor Peter Rigby, the Maasai's resistance to Westernization and their reluctance to enter the market system is ethnosuicide.

• dewesternization