Westernization
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Westernization, also Europeanisation or occidentalization, is a process whereby societies come under or adopt what is considered to be Western culture, in areas such as industry, technology, science,
The racial mixing of Spaniards and Indigenous Latin Americans.
King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan attempted to Westernize his country in the 1920s, but tribal revolts caused his abdication.
Another example of Westernization: Prince Yorihito Higashifushimi of Japan in typical Western naval dress uniform with white gloves, epaulettes, medals and hat.
Similarity with U.S. General John C. Bates's uniform.
Western world
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The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in Europe, Northern America, and Australasia; with some debate as to whether those in the former Soviet Union
Westernization
…resistance, survival, adaptation, or modification affect a native culture may differ following inter-ethnic contact. The West was originally defined as the Western world. A thousand years later, the East-West Schism separated the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church from each other. The definition of Western…
The Parthenon in Athens
The Roman Forum in Rome
Christopher Columbus arrives at the New World.
Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, based on the correlations of ideal human proportions with geometry described by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in Book III of his treatise De architectura.