What is "westernizing"

Usage examples of "westernizing".

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.