Europeanizes
Adopts Old World
Europeanizes means to make something more European in character, style, or organization.
A country might Europeanize its legal system by adopting EU standards, or a city might Europeanize its downtown with pedestrian plazas and outdoor cafés.
The term can carry positive connotations of modernization or negative ones of cultural homogenization, depending on context: Critics accused the reforms of Europeanizing traditional customs.
Adopts Euro-American customs
- modernizesMakes new again
- assimilatesAbsorbs into a larger whole
- acculturatesAdopts dominant group's norms
- anglicizesAdapts to English norms
homogenizes · standardizes · integrates · transforms · adapts · converts · aligns · conforms
Domination through foreign settlement
- hegemonyDominant group's control
- EurocentrismBias toward Western perspectives
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
- indoctrinationSystematic uncritical belief instillation
diplomacy · enlightenment · convergence · incorporation · diffusion · imposition · spread · transmission
Adoption of current methods
- liberalismPhilosophy valuing reform, tolerance
- democracyRule by the people
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- secularismSeparation of faith, state
industrialization · progressivism · reformism · enlightenment · globalization · urbanization · cosmopolitanism · individualism
westernizes
Adopts Euro-American customs
- modernizesMakes new again
- assimilatesAbsorbs into a larger whole
- acculturatesAdopts dominant group's norms
anglicizes · homogenizes · standardizes · integrates · transforms · adapts · converts · aligns · conforms · naturalizes
colonialism
Domination through foreign settlement
- hegemonyDominant group's control
- EurocentrismBias toward Western perspectives
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
indoctrination · diplomacy · enlightenment · convergence · incorporation · diffusion · imposition · spread · transmission · penetration
modernization
Adoption of current methods
- liberalismPhilosophy valuing reform, tolerance
- democracyRule by the people
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
secularism · industrialization · progressivism · reformism · enlightenment · globalization · urbanization · cosmopolitanism · individualism · rationalism
Europeanizesdecolonizes
Ends foreign imperial rule
localizes · authenticates · tribalizes · repatriates · preserves