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Swedish
Etymology
Blend of coca-cola + kolonisering (“colonisation”), attested since 1985.
Noun
cocacolonisering c
- Coca-Colonialism; americanization, westernization
- Synonym: cocacolisering
1985 March 1, “Några nyare ord i svenskan (Nyordlista 1986)”, in Svenska Dagbladet:De följder Jan Myrdal närmast ser är att "den bildade borgerligheten samtidigt har upplöst sig till allmänt obildat Dallas-pack" medan "den statliga kulturpolitiken coca-coloniserar folket genom massmedia och ger åt de kultiverade en provinsiell efterklangsakademism.- The consequences Jan Myrdal will face next is that "the educated bourgeoisie at the same time has dissolved to generally uneducated Dallas-riffraff "while "state cultural policy coca-colonizes the people through the mass media and gives to the cultivated a provincial reverberation academy.