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The social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of Western civilization
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westernization
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Westernization ( USA ) or Westernisation ( UK ) (see spelling differences ), also Europeanization / Europeanisation or occidentalization / occidentalisation (from the Occident , meaning the Western world ; see "occident" in the dictionary), is a process ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also westernisation , 1873, noun of action from westernize (v.). Earliest reference is to Japan.\n\n[The mikado's] late rapid and radical progress in westernization (to evolve a word that the Japanese will need) justifies great expectations of him. [Coates ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. The process of assimilation, by a society, of the customs and practices of western culture. n. The process of assimilation, by a society, of the customs and practices of western culture.
Usage examples of westernization.
Thus it wished to extirpate the Western technology and economic forms as well as the other aspects of the Westernization of Russia.
This was one area in which Westernization made little headway in Japan, and even today many Japanese continue to live, as they have for centuries, in houses consisting chiefly of sparsely furnished rooms with matted floors upon which to sit and sleep.
Islamic facts, too, as are journalism, Westernization, and intellectual societies.
Chinese continued to regard Westernization as the necessary vehicle of change.
Kemal, champion of Westernization and the secular Turkish state, would remain true to those principles to the end, dying at fifty-seven of cirrhosis of the liver.
Inhabitants of Rennell Island, a traditional Polynesian island that did not become Westernized until the 1930s, told me that Westernization yielded the wonderful side benefit that the island became quiet.