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English
Etymology
From western + -ization.
Noun
westernization (countable and uncountable, plural westernizations)
- The process of assimilation, by a society, of the customs and practices of western culture.
1964, The journal of Asian studies, volume 24, page 309:I would argue that Westernization as a cultural attribute was less important than the fact that these men had skills disposing them to what rule-based government and fear 'demagocracy' )
2005, Randall Elam Mayes, The Cybernetics of Kenyan Running: Hurry, Hurry Has No Blessing, page 92:According to anthropology professor Peter Rigby, the Maasai's resistance to Westernization and their reluctance to enter the market system is ethnosuicide.
Antonyms
Translations
assimilation of the western culture
- Arabic: تَغْرِيب m (taḡrīb)
- Belarusian: вестэрніза́цыя f (vjesternizácyja), вэстэрніза́цыя f (vesternizácyja)
- Bulgarian: уестърниза́ция f (uestǎrnizácija)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 西方化 (xīfānghuà), 西化 (zh) (xīhuà), 歐美化/欧美化 (Ōu-Měi-huà)
- Czech: westernizace f
- Dutch: verwestersing f, verwesterlijking f
- Finnish: länsimaistuminen, länsimaistaminen
- French: occidentalisation (fr) f
- German: Verwestlichung f
- Greek: δυτικοποίηση (el) f (dytikopoíisi)
- Hebrew: הִתְמַעַרְבוּת f
- Hindi: पश्चिमीकरण m (paścimīkraṇ)
- Italian: occidentalizzazione (it) f
- Japanese: 西洋化 (せいようか, seiyōka), 欧米化 (ja) (おうべいか, ōbeika)
- Korean: 서양화(西洋化) (ko) (seoyanghwa), 구미화(歐美化) (gumihwa)
- Macedonian: озападување n (ozapaduvanje), вестернизација f pl (vesternizacija)
- Persian: غربگرایی (fa) (ğarb-garâyi)
- Polish: okcydentalizacja f, westernizacja f
- Portuguese: ocidentalização f
- Russian: вестерниза́ция (ru) (vɛstɛrnizácija) (neologism), западниза́ция (ru) f (zapadnizácija), европеиза́ция (ru) f (jevropeizácija) (Europeanisation), американиза́ция (ru) f (amerikanizácija) (Americanisation) ("европеизация" and "американизация" are often used together to convey this meaning), оксидентализа́ция f (oksidɛntalizácija)
- Spanish: occidentalización f
- Turkish: batılılaşma (tr)
- Ukrainian: вестерніза́ція f (vesternizácija)
- Uyghur: غەربلىشىش (gherblishish)
- Vietnamese: sự Tây phương hoá (sự + 西方化)
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