westernization

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westernization (countable and uncountable, plural westernizations)

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

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Modernization means Westernization. Camille Paglia

There is a new awakening in India that is challenging the ongoing westernization of the discourse about India and the intellectual machinery that produces it. Rajiv Malhotra

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation. Orhan Pamuk

But the revolt was easily crushed, leading Nicholas to turn away from the Westernization program begun by Peter the Great and champion the doctrine " Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality ". Source: Internet

In the rapidly developing countries of Asia, westernization of diets associated with increasing prosperity is leading to growth in per capita demand for wheat at the expense of the other food staples. Source: Internet

Michener 1959, p. 200 Kobayashi 1997, p. 95 The rapid Westernization of the Meiji period that followed saw woodblock printing turn its services to journalism, and face competition from photography. Source: Internet

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