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/ɪnˌdɪdʒənʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ · noun
The act of making something or someone more indigenous; adaptation to native or local culture..
An early attempt at what might now be called indigenization occurred in one of the first forts which the Portuguese built on the West African coast, Fort St George of Elmina, in what is now Ghana.
[A] reverse process of what we might call indigenisation also occurred, in which the freed convicts and their families and their descendants took on some of the values and mentality of Aboriginal people.
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Indigenization means The act of making something or someone more indigenous; adaptation to native or local culture..
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An early attempt at what might now be called indigenization occurred in one of the first forts which the Portuguese built on the West African coast, Fort St George of Elmina, in what is now Ghana.
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