Europeanize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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to make European in culture, dress, etc
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to integrate (a country, economy, etc) into the European Union
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Sub-Saharan history is tougher to Europeanize without featuring the colonial perspective, relegating the Black Africans who have existed there for generations to background roles.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2023
The artist has made no attempt to Europeanize his features; his curly hair, dark skin, and thick lips mark him as a proud African.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2015
But Mr. Paes insisted that the Pereira Passos era was different because it largely involved attempts to Europeanize coveted areas of Rio.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2014
We’ve had this problem with a split identity for centuries, ever since Peter the Great tried to Europeanize the country.
From Newsweek ● Jun. 11, 2012
He could not Europeanize his empire without some such location for his new capital.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 08 Great Rulers by Lord, John
He succeeded, but at the expense of a rent in the fabric of Russian history that left many recently Europeanized elites feeling estranged from the traditional culture of the peasantry.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2022
Instead he regularly urged learning from the great Russians that Constance was busily translating, especially the more polished and Europeanized Turgenev.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2018
The result: a hobbled Europeanized elite by the end of Francia’s rule.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2012
Even the Europeanized nobles, who were usually her greatest supporters, loved their serfs.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 1, 2011
Second, doesn’t addressing Yali’s question automatically involve a Eurocentric approach to history, a glorification of western Europeans, and an obsession with the prominence of western Europe and Europeanized America in the modern world?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
There are sort of Spanish recipes, some of which have Spanish origins, and some of which are kind of purposeful Europeanizing of Central American food,” Joskow says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
Robert Lyall, visiting Tbilisi in the 1820s, saw Russian colonization as a Europeanizing process:
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2017
At Angora, President Mustafa Kemal of the Turkish Republic continued his policy of Europeanizing Turkey by holding a dinner-dance in Occidental style.
From Time Magazine Archive
The question: Would they accept the "Europeanizing" of their territory, and thereby advance the cause of European unity and Franco-German amity?
From Time Magazine Archive
They are still at work Europeanizing the world.
From A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Hayes, Carlton J. H.
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