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Westernization

Westernization describes the influence western (or global) culture is winning over traditional ways of living in non-western countries. It can be used to describe this process, but also in a normative way. Then westernization is seen as something negative, in almost all cases.

See also:

• Americanization
• post-colonialism
• globalisation
• cultural studies
• Third world

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