occidentalize

A verb meaning to make something Western in character, culture, or style, often in a political or sociological context.

• 🇨🇳动词，指使某事物具有西方（尤指欧美）的性质、文化或风格，常用于政治或社会学语境。

1. Make Western in character C1 formal

   To cause a society, culture, or institution to adopt Western characteristics, values, or practices.

   • The country's rapid economic growth led to a tendency to occidentalize its traditional customs.
   • Some critics argue that globalization tends to occidentalize local cultures.
   • The government's policies aimed to occidentalize the education system.

   🇨🇳西化

   同义词: americanizeeuropeanizewesternize

   反义词: orientalize