0 the process of westernizing a person or a country (= causing ideas or ways of life that are common in North America and western Europe to be more used and accepted):
Economic growth, modernization, and westernization are transforming the country at a dizzying pace.
In the rapidly developing countries of Asia, westernization of diets is leading to growth in demand for wheat.
With the westernization of home architecture, the neighborhood bath house is losing its previous prominence.
But what he describes, by his own admission, is the gradual ' westernization ' of the world, which surely provides what he claims is not possible, namely a ' global ' explanation for globalization.
They know that progress means something deeper, and that westernization is not necessarily true progress.
They believe this accommodation signifies a surrendering to both westernization and secularization, which is deemed evil.
It is a poetic film that tries to paint a picture of the urban culture undergoing westernization.
However, in the face of radical westernization, these efforts ground to a halt.
