Meaning of Brazilianisation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of Brazilianization.
   countable, uncountable
2. An increased percentage of Brazilian people or culture.
   countable, uncountable
3. Alternative letter-case form of Brazilianization.
   alt-of, countable, uncountable
4. A social change toward economic disparity.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“The whole effort is at present directed to nothing more than the prevention of the Brazilianisation of the Germans in Brazil. It is all quite natural ; but it is also quite natural that the Brazilian Government, which has to look on at this systematic effort to prevent a large portion of its subjects from feeling themselves to be first and foremost- Brazilians, should entertain ' suspicions.'”

“The President-elect's very strong sense of nationalism and his all-pervading idea of Brazilianisation alone would insist that any political system established in Brazil must conform to Brazilian realities.”

“Thereafter, the process of 'Brazilianisation' went ahead, marked by curiously similar phases of autochthonous adaptation and recreation, and each time there was a reaffirmation of that simple gracefulness and delicate sensualism which became eventually the distinctive characteristic of the country's best architecture.”

“In Chapter 5 the narrative and analysis shift to the global South, that part of the globe once known as the Third World. This is the main site of "informalisation' (or Brazilianisation) whereby 'non-standard' forms of employment become prevalent.”

“National governments can try to resist Brazilianisation by regulating their labour markets and closing their borders, but the most likely end result in today's global conditions is economic stagnation or even decline.”

“The ramifications of Brazilianisation are countless: In the USA, according to some observers, Latinisation and the diminishing relevance of the old communitarian model will make social reality similar to that of Brazil.”

“Invoking the examples of Japan and the United States, he weighs the dangers of economic dualism and the creeping 'brazilianisation' of job markets.”

“In his eagerness to show how erroneous the Brazilian modernists were, Holston fails to discuss the desire for modernisation among the Brazilian people. Even if the people demand "brazilianisation", such a process might include elements of modernisation.”

“Due to the early 1990s crisis, but also to the transition from a work society to a knowledge society, the increasing unemployment rate and the growing incidence of part-time, flexible and 'precarious' employment in westem countries have been documented and described as a 'brazilianisation of the west' (Beck, 2000).”

“They talked about brazilianisation by infection, of Brazil as an immense hospital, and these ideas percolated into literature, reinforced, perhaps, by the memory of those flu-themed parades in the 1919 Rio Carnival, when groups calling themselves 'Midnight Tea' and 'Holy House' sang bawdy songs about a 'Spanish lady'.”

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