Westernization

Quick meaning: Westernization is a noun meaning The process of assimilation, by a society, of the customs and practices of western culture.

Meaning

The process of assimilation, by a society, of the customs and practices of western culture.

Example Sentences

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

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' )

Word Forms

• westernizations
• westernisation

Antonyms for westernization

Common opposites include dewesternization.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include westernize, assimilation, assimilationism, assimilationist, westernism, transformationalism.

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