What is "westernized"

Usage examples of "westernized".

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.

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.