What is "westernize"

Usage examples of "westernize".

Hence its condemnation of classical modernism as a purely Westernizing force.

Oriental adversary and turning it into at least an approximation of an acceptable, healthy, westernized nation.

A small Westernized intelligentzia with many internal feuds and doctrinal disputes struggled, not very effectively, in the larger towns to turn this merely insurgent Communism into modern and constructive paths after the Moscow pattern.

The upper Russia, the Westernized stratum which played with Western materialistic philosophy, spoke German and French, traveled to the spas of Europe, and concerned itself with European cabinet-politics, was the object of the fierce hatred of the pure Russians, the Nihilists, who embodied the wordless idea of complete destruction of the West, and the Russification of the world.

Ottoman empire finally disintegrated and the Turk, Mustafa Kemalmay God roast himabolished the Caliphate and tried to Westernize his country in imitation of the British and the Germans.

But while Japan has become a formally Westernized nationality in the comity of such nations, India remains a world in itself.

Among the Westernized shopping malls that sold Gucci glasses, Lacoste shirts, soft-suede cowboy boots, Nikon telescopes, computers, fax machines, compact disks, cordless miniphones, condoms, contact lenses, and every manner of leather and gold designer “.

For better or worse, this was clearly a more authentic, Westernized middle class than the one emerging in India, which, though able to afford such consumer items, often still dressed in polyester and maintained intercommunal grudges that Thais seemed to lack.

As a general rule, Indians are reliably anti-Fascist in proportion as they are westernized.

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.

And Ulug Beg was among the most Westernized Uzbeks I was to meet in Central Asia.

Reza Shah’s centralized modernization merely created “two cultures” in Iran, writes Keddie, the Westernizing culture of the cities and the increasingly embittered peasant culture of the villages.

Then we can confiscate the damned thing under the Cultural Antiquities Act, send it back where it belongs, and get on with the much more important business of Westernizing China.

Partly because they are interpreting Asia to the west, but more, I think, because they act as a westernizing influence among their own countrymen.