to occidentalize

Examples

• All

• The government is trying to occidentalize the education system to align it more with Western values.

• To assure us that such is both feasible and desirable, she begins her book with the following Orientalizing and Occidentalizing essentialisms:

  Academic text (1991)

• Perhaps more than any other anthropologist, Mead not only Orientalized the "other" but Occidentalized "us." (n2)

  Academic text (1991)

• Thus far, our argument concerning Mead and Bateson has been that by Orientalizing the "other" as culturally determined, it has been possible for them to Occidentalize "us" as free to choose our destinies.

  Academic text (1991)

• A view of ourselves as disconnected—as absolved from the obligation to struggle to know the "other"—is, given the nature of a system, to Occidentalize by misinterpreting who we are, including the effects we have in the world.

  Academic text (1991)

• Soon what had begun with Western coercion to trade became a massive Occidentalizing movement. During the last week of August 1941, Colonel Iwakuro, who had worked on the Draft Understanding with the United States to avoid war, attended a liaison conference with the Navy, where he contrasted the alarming differences between American and Japanese war potential.

  Academic text (1995)

• As countries develop, they often face pressure to occidentalize their traditions and customs in favor of Western practices.

Synonyms

W

to westernize

vsto occidentalize

4 6.3

Adopt customs and ways of life from Western countries

means the same and stresses Western European or American influence

A

to Americanize

vsto occidentalize

3 6.5

To make a person or thing more like American culture

is broader covering Western influence beyond American traits alone

A

to acculturate

vsto occidentalize

• Specialized

1 8.2

Learn and use the customs and ways of another group

focuses on Western adoption rather than general cultural exchange

E

to Europeanize

vsto occidentalize

7.7

To make something more like European culture and customs

is broader covering Western influence beyond Europe alone

E

to enculturate

vsto occidentalize

• Specialized

9.2

Change something so it fits local customs and values

is specifically about making things adopt Western customs and values

Antonyms

O

to orientalize

• Offensive

9.9

To make something look like it comes from Asian culture, often using simple, wrong ideas

How Western

to westernize

4 6.3

to occidentalize

• Formal

9.9

to Europeanize

7.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology